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Heading to Kansas City for the Mobile Healthcare Association Conference? Come meet our team! 👋

Our team will be digging into some of the questions that matter for the future of mobile health: How do we measure quality and impact? How do we build sustainable programs? How do we strengthen partnerships and integrate mobile health into broader systems of care?

Here’s where you’ll find us:

✅ Advancing Public Health Quality for Mobile Clinics: A National Quality Improvement Tool

✅ Brain Care on Wheels: Co-Creating Community Collaboration

✅ Building Sustainable Financing Models for Mobile Health: Perspectives from Across the Healthcare Ecosystem

✅ Integrating Mobile Health into Public Health Systems: Practical Strategies for Partnerships, Collaboration, and Sustainability

✅ Building Strategic Community Partnerships: A Value-Driven Framework for Mobile Health Program Success

And we want to keep the conversation going.

➡️ Stop by our booth to talk with us about evaluation, measuring impact, demonstrating value, quality improvement, partnerships, or the questions you’re wrestling with in your own program.

Bring your questions. Bring your challenges. We’d love to hear what you’re working on and share what we’re learning from mobile clinics across the country.

See you in Kansas City!

You know you work at Mobile Health Map when you can’t pass a mobile clinic without stopping! ❤️

This summer:

📷 1: While on vacation in California, Michael Lawler stopped by Altura Centers for Health for a visit.

📷 2: Kait Guild came across a mobile clinic while traveling in southern Portugal.

📷 3-6: And our Co-Director at The Family Van, Rainelle Walker-White, spotted them all across Boston, which is extra special for us. We know firsthand how much mobile clinics can mean to the communities they serve, and seeing them out in our own city is always a little reminder of why this work matters.

For our team, these unexpected sightings are a fun reminder that mobile health is happening in communities everywhere. ❤️

With the school year underway, mobile clinics are heading into schools, too!

Across the country, mobile health programs are partnering with schools to bring healthcare directly to students, from primary care and preventive services to behavioral and mental health support.

The approach is straightforward: Instead of asking families to fit another appointment into an already crowded day, bring care to a place students already are.

We’re seeing this model take shape in communities across the country:
❤️ Cincinnati Children's Mobile Care Center is partnering with two Ohio high schools to provide primary care during the school day.

❤️ All Care Health Center’s Mobile Medical Clinic provides primary medical care at six school campuses in Iowa and has recently expanded access to school-based behavioral health services.

❤️ Metro Community Health Center’s Heals on Wheels partners with the Wilkinsburg School District in Pennsylvania to provide comprehensive healthcare, preventive services, state-mandated screenings, and mental health support.

The partnerships vary. The idea is consistent: bring care closer to where young people already are.

As schools become an increasingly important setting for healthcare delivery, mobile clinics are showing what can happen when healthcare providers and schools work together. ❤️

How can states use Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) funding to show impact from day one?

In rural Oregon, Dr. Rebecca Chown, OD, FAAO of Envision EyeCare for All offers one example.

Founded in 2023, Dr. Chown has built a strong mobile eye care program through community partnerships, demonstrating the need for rural eye care and showing what the model could achieve.

Now, RHTP funding is helping her bring that work to more rural communities by:

✅ Expanding access to comprehensive eye exams and glasses

✅ Training other providers to expand diabetic eye screening capacity

✅ Strengthening connections with rural healthcare providers, schools, and senior centers

The lesson for states is important: RHTP funding can do more than launch new programs. It can help scale and sustain community-rooted models that already have the partnerships, experience, and track record to turn funding into care.

How could your state use RHTP funding to scale mobile health models that have already built trust, partnerships, and a track record of impact?

What happens when a mobile clinic brings behavioral health care to students instead of asking students to come to care?

More young people can access care.

At Memorial Hospital in Carthage, IL, behavioral health services are delivered directly at schools — making it easier for children and teens to access care where they already are.

The difference is striking:

➡️ 90% attendance with the mobile behavioral health unit

compared with

➡️ 62% attendance for regular clinic-based counseling.

That’s a powerful reminder that where care is delivered can make a difference in whether young people are able to receive it.

And the program is growing.

What began as one mobile unit serving 7 schools has expanded to two units serving 13 schools, while the behavioral health team has grown from one provider to three.

For young people experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma and other behavioral health needs, bringing care directly to schools can help remove barriers, connect students with support and make it easier to get the care they need.

📖 Read the full article to see how Memorial Medical Clinic Mobile is expanding behavioral health access for young people — and what its experience can teach us about the power of mobile care.

https://www.mhtlc.org/memorial-medical-clinics-launches-second-behavioral-health-mobile-unit/

Rural Health Transformation is becoming real on the ground.

After months of planning and applications, RHTP investments are now beginning to reach communities across the country.

In Alabama, here’s what that means for mobile healthcare.

Faulkner University has received $2.08 million to establish the Eagle Care Mobile Health Network, using two mobile healthcare units, virtual visits, remote health monitoring and care coordination to bring ongoing services directly to underserved rural communities across eight counties.

The investment is about more than putting healthcare on wheels. It reflects a broader approach to rural health that connects mobile care, technology, remote monitoring and care coordination to bring services closer to where people live.

We can’t wait to see the impact this work has across Alabama’s communities.

Read the article to learn more about what this investment means for rural healthcare in Alabama. 👇

https://www.greenvilleadvocate.com/news/ivey-announces-first-grants-of-new-rural-healthcare-program-8a07a351

What does it take to build a resilient healthcare system? For rural communities, barriers like provider shortages, geographic isolation, and transportation challenges can make accessing care difficult. Disasters can make those barriers even greater.

Mobile healthcare can help bring care where it’s needed. But being ready to move isn’t enough.

New research published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health examines a nurse-led mobile clinic program at Texas A&M University and its role in rural healthcare access, continuity of care, and disaster preparedness.

The study offers an important takeaway for the mobile healthcare field:
🔴 Building resilient healthcare systems requires more than a vehicle, equipment, and trained providers. It also requires the policies, partnerships, data systems, and decision-making structures needed to mobilize care when and where it’s needed most.

During the 2025 Central Texas flooding, the mobile clinic was prepared to respond but ultimately could not deploy because of administrative barriers.

Read the research to explore what this experience can teach us about building mobile healthcare systems that are not only accessible, but resilient and ready to respond.

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/23/6/702

What will it take to build a sustainable financial foundation for mobile healthcare?

If you’re attending the Mobile Healthcare Association’s 22nd Annual Mobile Health Clinics Conference, join our own Kait Guild for “Building Sustainable Financing for Mobile Health: From Grants to Braided Funding,” a timely cross-sector conversation on the future of mobile health financing.

Kait is bringing together leaders to examine what it will take to build more resilient funding models for mobile healthcare.

The panel brings perspectives from across the financing ecosystem — from reimbursement and value-based care to philanthropy, corporate investment, and the realities of operating mobile healthcare programs:

❤️ Rebecca Baker, BSN, RN, BS Ed, ACHE, Synergy 3C - The Clinical Consulting Cooperative — bringing expertise in value-based care, Medicaid, reimbursement, and emerging payment models

❤️ Amelia Rukema, Maine Mobile Health Program — bringing the mobile health operator and FQHC perspective, including what braided funding looks like in practice

❤️ Stewart Hudson, Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Inc. — bringing a systems-level philanthropic perspective on infrastructure, collaboration, and strengthening the mobile health field

❤️ Meredith Tierney, Sanofi US— bringing the corporate partnership perspective and experience with long-term investment in community-based healthcare

Together, they’ll explore how these perspectives and funding streams can help build stronger, more resilient mobile healthcare programs.

We’re excited to bring this conversation to the field and advance thinking about the future of mobile healthcare.

Are you attending the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) 2026 Community Health Conference? We’d love to see you there! 👋

Join Assistant Director Kait Guild today for two important conversations about mobile healthcare:
📍 Building Strategic Community Partnerships: A Value-Driven Framework for Success. 8:15–9:15 AM PDT | Primrose 6
📍 Partner of Choice: State of Mobile Health 2026. 2:45–3:45 PM PDT | Juniper 4

Kait will be bringing the Mobile Health Map perspective to conversations about building stronger community partnerships and understanding the data behind mobile health’s impact, ROI, and sustainability.

If you’re at , come find Kait, say hello, and connect with us! We’d love to meet you.

🎥 Across the country, mobile clinics are creating opportunities for the next generation of healthcare leaders to learn, listen, and serve alongside the communities they hope to care for.

By working directly in communities, students and emerging health professionals gain something that can’t be taught in a classroom alone: firsthand experience understanding the people, places, and barriers that shape health.

They see what happens when care is brought to people where they are. They learn the importance of trust, relationships, and meeting people with compassion. And they discover that healthcare can look very different when the community is at the center of it.

This summer, The Family Van welcomed six interns to its mobile clinic team. Two of them, Salroh Abdol and William Bishop, recently spoke with WBZ | CBS Boston about their experience bringing healthcare to the Boston communities they call home.

Their story is one example of something happening across the mobile health sector: mobile clinics are not only delivering care today, they are helping nurture the healthcare leaders we need tomorrow.

🎥 Watch the WBZ story:

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/video/the-family-van-provides-free-health-screenings-in-boston-neighborhoods/