Mobile unit, targets urban mental health problem

ATLANTA: Meet Dr. Joanne McDougal Patterson, a trailblazing psychiatric nurse practitioner and businesswoman who established the first-ever modest home clinic to transform mental health care in Metro Atlanta. This innovative program attempts to give local inhabitants access to culturally appropriate mental treatment.

Patients, especially women and children, can receive specialized care in a welcoming and pleasant setting that is evocative of a home at the tiny home clinic. She also founded the ReLeaf Boutique, an herbal apothecary for mental wellness that empowers people to take control of their mental health.

She provides virtual visits to people in…

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