Access to Medical and Behavioral Care For Children: A National Crisis
A primary goal of the U.S. health system is to provide affordable, value based, accessible care. Healthcare services are largely provided by hospitals and clinics, yet, among all of the methods for healthcare delivery mobile health clinics are the most effective in providing care to underserved children, offering a unique solution to expanding health equity […]
Mobile Behavioral Health & Addiction Clinics: Battling the Stigma
“Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” Over forty years ago, Sister Bernadette Kenny of the Catholic Order Medical Missionaries would drive her Volkswagen Beetle through the rural mountain roads of Appalachia to deliver health care to remote and disenfranchised people. Sister Kenny’s efforts eventually became a […]