During the week of April 15 – 21, 2021, five mobile dental clinics, containing 15 dental operatories, took over the parking lot of the Leo Baeck Temple near the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center (WLA VA) to provide free mobile dental care for veterans experiencing homelessness or at-risk for homelessness.
The weeklong dental clinic was the result of a monumental collaboration between Village for Vets, the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC and the Los Angeles Veterans Collaborative (LAVC), under the leadership of the Military and Veterans Programs at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.
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