Unit members served as regular staff members in various municipal government departments.  For example, Bob Bogue worked “Special Detail” in San Juan with the U. S. Public Health Service and his wife Lucille Bogue worked as an orthopedic nurse at the Convalescent Home for Crippled Children at Guaynabo. Dr. Potts headed up the community medical program, holding regular clinics at the Rural Dispensaries at Zalduondo and at Mata de Platanos, about six miles away.

The clinics in the two dispensaries provided care for ambulant patients with an emphasis on special clinics for prenatal care, infants and pre-school children, venereal diseases, and treatment of parasitic and infectious diseases.  A full time nurse, secretary and janitor staffed each clinic with Dr. Potts on hand two days a week.  A dentist came one day every other week. 

The unit partitioned off one room in the Zalduondo dispensary, equipping one of the resulting three spaces as a laboratory.  There Jef Prescod provided lab examinations to inform the medical team. 

During the second quarter of 1944, 1,354 patients were seen by the doctor in two clinics; of those 614 were new to the clinics.  In the same period, Jef Prescod performed 687 laboratory examinations (Zalduondo Newsletter No.  8, October 26, 1944).  Once tests showed positive for hookworm in children, unit personnel did follow-up with the family to check sanitation and related issues in the home.  That was followed by a complete treatment plan for the child and assistance for the family in eradicating the cause. 

With the opening of school, the medical program expanded to include examination of children and immunization of first-graders against typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox.  Tests for hookworm were administered as a regular part of the examinations and treatments given when the test were positive.  In other public health programs, unit members surveyed the condition of privies, moved some and reconditioned others.  The men worked with the Island Heath Department’s privy factory at Ceiba to secure replacement parts for installation. They also prepared a flyer in Spanish explaining the modifications needed in the privies.

Ivan Chatham and Everett Crouch planted soybeans in the unit garden, the gardens of several Zalduondo resettlers, the school agricultural classes and on the PRRA central farm.  Believing that soybeans could supply some of the nutrients missing in the Puerto Rican diet, they arranged to serve them in the school lunchrooms and sponsored demonstrations for their use in menu-planning. 

In other nutritional programs, the unit set up a milk station at Zalduondo in cooperation with government agencies and a child feeding program serving not only milk but also other food items.  Not only were the programs very popular, but also Puerto Ricans saw the benefits of agency and community cooperation. 

The Community Center Building housed a vibrant program including community recreation, a nursery school for pre-school children, a library, crafts and other classes including English and typing, as examples.  A movie series provided education about tuberculosis and hookworm.  On another occasion, one of the resettlers, who had experimented with growing and preparing soybeans, gave a report on their benefits.  Other events included music recitals, chalk talks on unit services such as sanitation, seed distribution and child care.  Ted Sanders started a number of choral groups, including one for seventh, eighth and ninth graders at the Second School, and he gave music lessons.

Summer recreation emphasized camping.  In 1945, nine scouts from Zalduondo and ten from St. Just were among the seventy boys from the Brumbaugh Reconstruction Unit at the YMCA campsite on the Mameyes River.  Mary Esther Williams, the unit medical social worker, directed the camp of the Insular Home for Girls also held at the campsite.

The American Friends Service Committee assigned three men to work at St. Croix as part of the Martin G. Brumbaugh Reconstruction Unit.