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Street Medicine

Outreach teams tackle COVID-19

While many of us feel an information overload from the media, social networks, and government with COVID-19 updates, a section of our population remains in the dark. For Atlantans experiencing unsheltered homelessness, many do not have internet access and lack crucial resources and sometimes basic awareness of the current pandemic. And for those who are…

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Event

One Day, Two Continents, Three Timezones

Dermatology clinic and Street Medicine recognized in Milan, Italy and Dallas, Texas. The World Congress of Dermatology in Milan Mark Holzberg, M.D., Mercy Care volunteer physician and founder of Avail Dermatology in Newnan, Georgia, was honored with the International Award for Social Responsibility in Dermatology in North America and a €20,000 ($22,457.20) grant. When the…

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Staff Highlight

“We’re working to keep people alive.”

Street Medicine’s Joy Fernandez de Narayan obtains her Doctor of Nursing Practice. Joy Fernandez came to Mercy Care almost five and a half years ago as a Nurse Practitioner. Though she originally entered her BSN at Kennesaw State with the intention to serve in Latin America with missional medicine, using her Spanish fluency, she felt…

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