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 The QCare iHealthPad, is a device that provides "high-quality, quick, free and anonymous" behavioral health screenings in English and Spanish for any customer…

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The QCare Convenient Care Clinic at Brown's Super Stores' ShopRite on Fox Street in Northeast Philadelphia is offering free behavioral and mental health screenings through a tablet. 

The Thomas Scattergood Foundation released its third annual design challenge and asked creative thinkers to make mental/behavorial heath-care education accessible in a retail clinic.

The winning entry called the QCare iHealthPad, is a device that provides "high-quality, quick, free and anonymous" behavioral health screenings in English and Spanish for any customer at QCare. The mounted tablets will be available in the waiting area at the clinic. 

It also includes a virtual library of general and mental health information as well as self-asssesment tools to determine if mental health counseling is a necessary step. 

The device was created by the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services in a partnership with Screening for Mental Health Inc., of Wellesley Hills, Mass.

"It's not meant to make a diagnosis," Alyson Ferguson, special projects manager for the Philadelphia-based Scattergood Foundation told Biz Journals. "It's to be used as part of a wellness check-up like the machine that takes your blood pressure. The results could show if there is something you need to talk to a health-care professional about."

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