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Health Care Help — and Hope
First-year medical students Hannah Wang , Alisha Guerrero , and Savannah Shepherd , left to right , check a woman ’ s blood pressure at the annual Kennedy Plaza Health Fair in September . Since 2016 , volunteers from The Warren Alpert Medical School and House of Hope , a local nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness , have organized the event to provide essential care to unhoused and underserved communities in Providence . “ As providers , we should be making sure that the most vulnerable , the most marginalized people are getting care , and a lot of times that is not going to be in a clinic , in a hospital setting ,” medical student Breyanna Watson says . — Brynne Connolly
PHOTOGRAPH : BRYNNE CONNOLLY
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