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Health and family education is an important component of the center. Books, magazines, pamphlets and videos on various health and parenting topics are available in English and Spanish, including information on babysitting, how to use baby car seats and safe bicycling tips. Every week, the Mobile Medical Unit of the Ronald McDonald® Children’s Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center provides voluntary, free, on-site health screening to children and parents of Loyola’s Children’s Center at Maybrook. Started in 1998, Loyola’s Mobile Unit was the first in the Midwest to take mobile health services directly to medically underserved children throughout the Chicago area. Thousands of children have benefited from these free vital services.

We can perform vision and hearing testing, growth screening, asthma testing, blood pressure check, anemia/hemoglobin testing and blood oxygen testing, all free of charge. When the Mobile Unit’s medical professionals detect problems, they refer the child and parents for appropriate follow-up and further testing.