Module 3: Program Clearinghouse

Across the country, organizations are delivering services directly to rural communities through successful mobile healthcare programs. These programs include community paramedicine, mobile integrated health, mobile clinics, and healthcare in the home models tailored to local needs.

Explore examples of organizations implementing mobile healthcare programs in rural areas below. Evidence-based and promising models for rural mobile healthcare programs are available in Module 2.

• Arkansas Center For Women and Infants' Health - Mobile Units
  Synopsis: The Arkansas Center for Women and Infants’ Health mobile units travel throughout Arkansas and work with local partners to address maternal mortality and provide preventive care to rural communities in the state.
• Johnston County Emergency Services Community Paramedic Program
  Synopsis: The Community Paramedic Program in Johnston County, North Carolina reduces hospital readmission rates for patients who experience chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and diabetes. The program receives funding support from the local hospital.
• MaineHealth Mobile Health Unit Outreach
  Synopsis: The MaineHealth Mobile Health Unit brings preventive screenings, vaccinations, health education, and social service referrals to rural communities across Franklin County, Maine, reducing barriers to care and building trust through community-based outreach.
• Nevada Rural Hospital Partners Community Paramedicine and Mobile MRI Program
  Synopsis: With specially trained Advanced EMTs, the Nevada Rural Hospital Partners Community Paramedicine Program utilizes in-home visits and remote monitoring devices to care for patients with chronic conditions. The organization’s Mobile MRI system brings imaging and diagnostic care directly to residents across the state, addressing transportation barriers for rural and remote communities.
• Project Vision Hawaii
  Synopsis: Project Vision Hawaii’s mobile health programs deliver critical vision care, dental services, hygiene resources, and a range of other health and social services to communities in need across the state.
• Queen Anne’s County Mobile Integrated Community Health (MICH) Program
  Synopsis: Queen Anne's County Department of Health and Department of Emergency Services in Maryland have partnered to deliver a mobile integrated health program in which community nurses and paramedics conduct home safety checks and physical and social needs assessments to improve patients' health.
• Smiles Across Montana
  Synopsis: Smiles Across Montana delivers preventive and restorative oral healthcare, education, and referrals across Montana. By considering both dental and overall health needs, the program serves as a critical healthcare access point for children, uninsured populations, and other communities in need.
• United Ambulance Service
  Synopsis: United Ambulance Service provides its patient population in rural Maine with a host of in-home health services, like home safety and well-being checks, medication reconciliation, vaccinations, health screenings, chronic disease management education, and wound care services. This program serves patients who lack access to resources, like home healthcare, and aims to connect each patient with a primary care provider.
• West Virgina University (WVU) Cancer Institute: Bonnie’s Bus and LUCAS
  Synopsis: Utilizing state-of-the-art, adaptable technology, the WVU Cancer Institute deploys two mobile health units (Bonnie’s Bus and LUCAS) to conduct screenings for breast and lung cancer across West Virginia’s most rural counties.