SHERBURN — The Sherburn City Council met Monday, June 7. Amy Long, administrator at Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont, presented information about the Mobile Health Clinic that will be visiting Sherburn.

Residents of Sherburn have been missing the services of the Mayo Clinic that was located in Sherburn. The clinic in Sherburn has been closed since March of 2020 due to the pandemic.

The City has planned an open house for residents to see the van at the Sherburn Festival event Friday evening at the fire hall. The Sherburn Clinic had a higher usage than some branch clinics, with most patients being over 65 years old. This 28-foot Winnebago van is for patients in the southern Minnesota area from the Mayo Clinic Health System.

This is Phase 1 and if the demand is high enough, the system may purchase another van. There are currently over 2000 mobile units in the USA. This is the fi rst for Mayo Health Systems.

Each van includes two exam rooms, an on-site laboratory and pharmacy services. It has technology to connect patients virtually with doctors and Mayo Clinic experts.

Electronic Health records will be available to your care teams and other Mayo locations. It will provide patients with an option to receive care through video appointments with Mayo Clinic experts while close to home.

The cost of care is the same as visiting a Mayo Health Systems Clinic. To request an estimation of services cost, call Patient Account Services at 1-844-312-8263 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

The mobile unit will be available for routine or preventive care but will not be an urgent care or emergency care provider. April Pohlman will be the provider in the van and a nurse and driver/scheduler will be available. The hours/days are to be determined but it is planned to have the mobile unit in Sherburn four days per month.

They hope to begin service the week of July 5. Same day appointments may be available scheduled through the Fairmont Clinic. The unit will be wheelchair (lift) and handicap-accessible and will have it’s own electricity resource. They hope to use WIFI from the area if available. They will have all the services that the Sherburn Clinic had available, with pharmacy and dental services plans currently under discussion.

Some of the services available include: acute illness/infection, immunizations, preventive services, medication refi lls and checks, chronic disease checks, warfarin management, pacemaker checks, virtual specialty consults, wellness visits, pediatrics, and prenatal visits. Sherburn is in the midst of the outer edges of medical providers from Rochester, Sioux Falls and Iowa. The van hopes to give service to patients in the rural Jackson area also.

Information about the van and the opportunity to see the van on Friday, June 18, will be on the city website, cityofsherburn.com, and on the city’s Facebook page.

The council meeting continued with approval of the resolution to accept the COVID funds under the American Rescue Plan. Sherburn should receive approximately $124,000 over two years to be used for revenue recovery, infrastructure, and other federal/state prescribed fundings.

The City will request road paving for Temperance Lake Road since so many use the road and it would help the traffi c situation on Fifth Street.

Fox Lake Conservation Club requested sharing expense of grading their road with Sherburn. The council approved that the administrator will look into more information about how often the service would be needed and what payment would be given for that service and bring it back to the council for their next meeting.

The administrator, Brad Hughes, reported that they will use the back up pump so that the second well can be activated as soon as possible. The part-time employee is working out fi ne and the painting is done.

The next meeting of the Sherburn City Council is scheduled for 5 p.m. June 21 at Sherburn City Hall.