Driving the news: The Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio awarded the grant to the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health to expand SPIN over the next three years.

• Jack Tsai, professor at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, has spent the past two years piloting pop-up clinics in San Antonio laundromats.
• Now, it's scaling from just a few locations to about 12 locations across the city, with several launching in recent days.
• SPIN partners with SpinXpress and plans to expand to additional smaller laundromats across San Antonio.

How it works: Teams set up inside laundromats to offer quick screenings for blood pressure, diabetes (A1C) and mental health.

• Participants get results within minutes. Those with concerning results are referred to low-cost or free care options across the city.

The latest: The next phase goes beyond screening to help people access care.

• "We will not only be doing health screenings but providing health education and then working closely with our partner, University Health, to navigate them to care with a specific focus on diabetes," Tsai tells Axios.

Threat level: During the pilot phase, researchers found participants had hypertension rates roughly twice as high as the broader Bexar County population, along with slightly higher rates of diabetes.

What they're saying: "We think the work is important because it engages underserved communities and catches them when they have idle time," Tsai says.

What's next: The goal is to expand from helping hundreds to reaching thousands of residents.

• "We are particularly interested in setting up in laundromats that are in medically underserved areas," Tsai says.