BATH, N.Y. (WENY) -- Steuben County Public Health has added a new mobile vaccination van to its fleet of public health resources.  

“It has two workstations where we can vaccinate populations,” Ryan Stryker, a Public Health Emergency Coordinator, said. “We can also do community outreach to them, give them medication...if there was a flood like there was in 2021, go out to then, be able to help them out in any shape or form they made need.” 

As the van starts to gain community attention, it will operate during emergency response events, community engagement events, and supplement the services that Steuben County Public Health provides regularly.  

Stryker said the van will help people that live in less-populated areas, as well as Steuben County’s Amish community.  

“We have that ability to reach out to the Amish...we have a relationship with them,” Stryker said. “It gives us that ability...where a lot of rural community, which is a majority of our county, really gives us the ability to reach out to them in a way that we hadn’t been able to previously.” 

The van is a tool and Stryker said it gives people mobile immunizations, testing and screening, and can be used for emergency response. 

“It could be Covid-19 vaccinations, flu shots, medications, blood pressure screening...any kind of outreach, safe sex kits that we do,” he said.  

Contact [email protected] for more information on the van's schedule and services.