BLADENSBURG - On a Wednesday morning in October, a large three-room van rolls into the Bladensburg Elementary School parking lot.
Laura Koo, a nurse practitioner, welcomes her first two patients of the day -- Rosa Melara, 38, and Richard Fodouop, 59 -- aboard the Governor's Wellmobile. Neither has health insurance, nor anywhere else to go.
And they're the lucky ones.
For 15 years, the Governor's Wellmobile program, run through the University of Maryland, Baltimore's School of Nursing, has been providing free health care services -- such as routine check-ups, blood work and filled prescriptions -- to the...
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