"Mobile Health Clinics: Opportunities and Challenges"
Friday, July 8, 2011 – 2:00-3:30 PM EDT This informational webinar will explore how mobile health clinic vans can be used to deliver cost-effective, preventive health care in an efficient way.
These clinics represent an innovative way to potentially reduce health care disparities by moving care settings closer to the homeless and other underserved populations who may not have access to transportation or other resources to obtain care. Mobile health clinics are typically located in self-contained motorized vehicles, and may either make regularly scheduled visits to specific locations or locations where marginalized potential patients congregate. Mobile health clinics may also facilitate preventive screenings and immunizations, as well as decrease the use of emergency departments.
Several factors should be considered when adopting mobile outreach services, such as performing a detailed needs analysis of the intended service population, the clinic’s perception of the problems, and the community’s cultural preferences and health beliefs.
Webinar presenters will share their experiences as mobile health care providers, as well as research findings on the scope and cost effectiveness of this care delivery model. The potential impact of mobile health clinics on avoided emergency room visits, disease prevention, and chronic disease management in the underserved will also be discussed. Presenters include:
Nancy E Oriol, M.D., Founder, The Family Van, Harvard Medical School
Anthony Vavasis, M.D., Clinical Director of Medical Services, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
Sandy Ortiz, M.B.A., Program Director, S.H.O.W. Mobile Program, Southeast Missouri State University
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