Meet Rosa Alcala, our KNX Hero of the Week! The community outreach manager has spent her career making sure others are okay and healthy!

In times of need, our KNX Hero of the Week is ready to jump in and help.

Here's Heather Jordan.

When it comes to working with a purpose, Rosa Alcala is a perfect example of a hero who does that.

Rosa has spent her career making sure others are okay and healthy, no matter their income or insurance status.

For the past 23 years, Rosa has helped lead the mobile health unit with AltaMed Health Services.

It's an outreach program for the nonprofit, and Rosa and her team respond almost daily, looking for people who may need help

accessing health care.

We've been in the community for over 50 years now.

I remember when I started, we only had a couple clinics.

Now we have over 20 different locations and so many departments.

We see ladies that are expecting babies to our seniors.

I am the community outreach manager.

I oversee our mobile unit program.

It's a clinic on wheels.

We go and serve the underserved communities, getting free services, free health screens.

We do blood pressures.

We do glucose.

We're ready for any disaster that might happen in the city of L.A. and Orange County, too.

Most recently, Rosa's team helped when the Lineage warehouse fire erupted.

They hit the streets in Boyle Heights to make sure anyone who needed medical assistance had someone to lean on and a safe space to do it.

I would love everybody to come and see a doctor as soon as possible, as soon as your body's telling you something, you know, that something's different.

But a lot of people don't have the resources, they don't have the funds to go pay for an office visit at a doctor.

So this is where Ultimate and the mobile unit come in.

You know, it goes beyond just serving the community.

Rosa truly wants people to have a good life.