Virginia Garcia rolls out new mobile clinic at Beaverton ceremony

A larger vehicle will enable Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Clinic to provide better service to migrant workers and school children in the two counties it serves.

The new mobile clinic made its debut Tuesday, Aug. 6, in a ceremony at The Round/Beaverton City Hall during National Health Center Week. It also was scheduled for a stop Friday, Aug. 9, in Cornelius.

"It's a full medical and dental clinic on wheels," said Kasi Woidyla of Virginia Garcia. "We treat a lot of different ailments and we do it right here."

U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici and Beaverton Mayor Denny Doyle also spoke.

"In the United States, no one should go without life-saving health care," Bonamici said. "Virginia Garcia's work is fulfilling that important vision."

The Oregon Democrat injected a political note when she decried attacks by President Donald Trump against the Affordable Care Act — the 2010 law signed by his predecessor Barack Obama — and Trump's comments aimed at immigrants, racial and ethnic minorities, and women.

"I stand with these communities and will always stand up to this administration's harmful, racist and immoral attacks on people in our communities — on immigrants, women, children and people of color," she said.