Mobile Health Clinics Provide Care in the United States

With more than 2,000 on the road in the U.S. and performing 6-½ million visits annually mobile health clinics serve an important role in the health care system, providing care to some of the most vulnerable populations. Between 2007 and 2017 Mobile Health Map monitored 811 participating clinics to identify:

Mobile Medical: On the Frontlines of Healthcare Delivery

For decades mobile clinics are a relatively untapped resource for global healthcare. In 2020 and beyond, the COVID-19 pandemic exhibits the important role of mobile health clinic programs. They provide critical access to healthcare professionals, especially for disenfranchised communities. They serve to fill the gap as a safety-net in what is often a deficient healthcare […]

Protecting Staff and the Public in Mobile Clinics

It’s important for the health and safety of your community to keep your mobile health clinic operating during the COVID-19 health crisis.  However, the confines of a mobile clinic can be perceived as a fearful environment for some health care providers and patients.  To address these concerns advancements have been made in developing several methods […]

Mobile Diabetes Clinics: Case Studies & Justifications

Mobile medical serves the entire range of at risk populations around the world; from disenfranchised African-Americans with diabetes – to the homeless – to children living in rural environments who lack health insurance – to indigenous communities – to isolated and impoverished people in the Middle East.  Sometimes MHCs are the provider of last resort […]

Behavioral Health with Mobile Health Clinics

Mobile health care units are medical offices on wheels.  In many cases they are used to serve the underprivileged, homeless and those with behavioral health disorders.  Those that are disenfranchised in these ways can often receive basic health care on a mobile medical unit at no charge, or are helped to connect with available health […]

How and Why Develop a Mobile Medical Program

Mobile medical clinics are customized vehicles which typically travel to urban and rural communities, many times targeting underserved low-income and minority populations who have a disproportionate burden of ill health and would benefit the most from the care provided to them by a mobile clinic.  Other mobile units offer pediatric services at schools for immunizations, […]