Connecting Health Care to People and Their Pets
About 1,000 people live in Knights Landing, ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ, a rural agricultural area in Yolo County. Because of its small size, the community lacks most services, including doctors and veterinarians - except on one Sunday every month. In this episode of Unfold, learn about the Knights Landing One Health Center, where veterinarians, physicians and their students team up to help some of the most vulnerable and underserved animals and people in the county.
In this episode:
, faculty director, Knights Landing One Health Clinic and access-to-care chief at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
, associate professor, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis Health
, assistant professor, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Tiaira Washington, nursing student, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis Health
Sydney Rasmussen, nursing student, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis Health
Izzie Hack, veterinary student, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Carlos Ayala, Knights Landing One Health client
Santos Lopez, Knights Landing One Health client
Stephanie Hernandez, Knights Landing One Health client
Clinics:
Translation services at the Knights Landing One Health Clinic are provided by bilingual students of the undergraduate Knights Landing class at the School of Veterinary Medicine
Transcript
Transcriptions may contain errors.
Amy Quinton
Coming to you from UC Davis
Marianne Russ Sharp
and UC Davis Health
Amy Quinton
This is unfold a podcast that breaks down complicated problems and unfolds curiosity-driven research. I'm Amy Quinton.
Marianne Russ Sharp
And I'm Marianne Russ sharp.
Amy Quinton
You've heard of the concept of One Health, Marianne. Yeah?
Marianne Russ Sharp
Yeah, the approach to health care that recognizes we're all connected right people, animals and our environment
Amy Quinton
We're going to look at how that unfolds on the ground.
Marianne Russ Sharp
I think its importance has been made very clear during the COVID pandemic.
Amy Quinton
You want to explain that a little more?
Marianne Russ Sharp
Yeah, so the virus that causes COVID is zoonotic, which means it can spread between people and animals. So in addition to infecting people, the virus has infected hundreds of animals, from dogs and cats to lions and gorillas, you've probably seen the stories about animals in zoos,
Amy Quinton
Right, and there's evidence to suggest that COVID-19 began at a wet market, where wild animals and people come into contact with one another. And potentially the virus may have jumped from an animal to a person.
Marianne Russ Sharp
So we need a collaborative approach to health looking at animals, people and the environment together a more holistic approach.
Amy Quinton
And One Health is not just a way to improve health globally, but locally as well. In fact, this is put into practice in a small community in Yolo County, ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ, a place called Knights Landing,
Marianne Russ Sharp
Right the Knights Landing One Health Center. It provides medical care to people and veterinary care for animals.
Amy Quinton
UC Davis and UC Davis Health faculty and students volunteer their time to provide care for this underserved community. And I got to tag along earlier this year when vet students and nursing students were helping out.
Marianne Russ Sharp
And now we're going to hear what a typical clinic Sunday is like.
Amy Quinton
Every third Sunday of the month, dozens of students transform what's normally a hunting club into a makeshift veterinary clinic in Knights Landing. They're from the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.
Kristin Jankowski
We have it on Sundays specifically because we're serving a community of mostly agricultural workers who that's their only day off of the week is Sundays.
Amy Quinton
Veterinarian Kristin Jankowski is Faculty Director for the Knights Landing One Health Clinic.
Kristin Jankowski
So the students are great enough to not mind getting up very early unloading a large volume of supplies from a shed.
Amy Quinton
It's organized chaos and highly efficient. Students from the School of Veterinary Medicine dressed in blue scrubs set up a pharmacy, exam tables, scales, computers, even large camping tents so vets can care for skittish cats, without too many distractions. The whole thing takes 45 minutes. Outside, Jankowski greets one of the first clients of the day. Hi, Darling, who is this?
Carlos Ayala
Her name is Chica.
Kristin Jankowski
Oh, hello Chica. You are so sweet.
Amy Quinton
Carlos Ayala and his young daughters brought Chica, their little five-pound puppy who is shivering in the wind.
Carlos Ayala
She is a chug. She's a chug. Chihuahua and a pug.
Kristin Jankowski
You guys have an appointment or are you..
Carlos Ayala
At nine.
Kristin Jankowski
At nine, Awesome.
Carlos Ayala
She's gonna get her first vaccines.
Kristin Jankowski
Oh, exciting. Okay, awesome. So then I'm guessing they're writing up. . . (fades out)
Amy Quinton
Carlos says he's never been to the clinic before but is glad it's here.
Carlos Ayala
Well, this is our first dog or my first dog. So I'm just getting introduced to all of this, making sure she's fine and doing well. So this is my first time. I heard around the community that they're going to be here and it's home. So we don't have to travel that far.
Amy Quinton
Fewer than 1000 people live in this tiny agricultural community nestled in the Sacramento Valley. There aren't a lot of businesses and many of left including health care providers.
Kristin Jankowski
Knights Landing used to have a human medical facility that then left the area. The Med School was asked to come in and bring a student group to run a student run clinic on the human med side.
Amy Quinton
Jankowski is talking about the free community health clinic run by School of Medicine students also in Knights Landing. That was e