Life Lesson: Kansas City Library Also Serves As Public Health Space

This is a good move if only to help keep so many hobos out of emergency rooms and maybe move sick locals closer to learning about medical care given that Elon Musk is going to cut everyone's benefits. 

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Libraries are “the last true public institution,” said Jaime Placht, a health and well-being specialist at the Kansas City Public Library system in Kansas City, Missouri. The system has a full-time social work team. “The library is a public health space.”

The Kansas City Public Library, along with Milwaukee and several others, is part of the American Heart Association's Libraries with Heart program. Several Kansas City branches have blood pressure stations — which Placht said have been used 13,000 times — as well as a take-home blood pressure kits that have been checked out nearly 100 times. The program started there about a year ago.

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