New Campaign to Boost Healthcare Access Nationwide Through Mobile Health Clinics

Healthcare and Insurance Companies, Manufacturers, Physicians, Community and Government Leaders are Joining Forces to Bring Essential Care to Communities

Washington, D.C. (February 10, 2025) – At an event earlier this month, a broad and growing group of community organizations, schools, healthcare companies, physicians, vehicle manufacturers, mobile health clinic operators, insurers, associations, and policymakers, launched Driving Health Forward, a national campaign to bring essential care to communities through mobile health clinics.

The campaign will work to advance specific policy initiatives, best practices, and partnerships in five key areas: promoting greater access to essential care and improved connection to follow-up care; creating more capital investment in mobile health clinics; expanding jobs in the mobile health clinic sector; providing an achievable path to financial sustainability; and creating greater impact through improved data collection, evaluation, and information sharing.

The Leon Lowenstein Foundation, a Connecticut-based family foundation, is supporting Driving Health Forward.

“The healthcare industry has a distribution problem,” said Nancy E. Oriol, MD, Faculty Associate Dean for Community Engagement in Medical Education at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of the Family Van and the Mobile Health Map project at Harvard Medical School. “Mobile health clinics are a critically needed bridge between communities, brick and mortar clinics and even telehealth operations in order to deliver healthcare to everyone. Driving Health Forward is bringing the right people together for a viable, long-term solution.”

The impetus for Driving Health Forward emerged last year as an increasing number of leaders of mobile health clinic programs, advocacy groups, and policymakers issued warnings about the state of access to essential care in the United States.

“Mobile health clinics play a specific role that others cannot because we are so enmeshed in our communities and understand their unique needs and risks,” said Phillip Levy, MD, MPH, Edward S. Thomas Endowed Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and associate vice president for Translational Science in the Office of the Vice President for Research, Wayne State University, and director of the Wayne Mobile Health Unit program. “As a larger community, if we want to improve health outcomes for a region, we need to offer care to everyone in that region. It's time to take mobile care to that next level."

The campaign is enlisting healthcare providers, insurers, vehicle operators, technology companies, community organizers, educators, local, state and federal officials, and others interested in delivering care to communities.

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Lisa Fels Davitt

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