Mobile Medical Care
| WISH LIST
$100: a year of medications for a patient with hypertension;
$150: 1 comprehensive physical exam;
$365: support for a MobileMed patient every day of the year (and membership in the "365 Club")
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All told, there are more than 100,000 Montgomery County residents without medical insurance, and the combined services of the region’s safety net organizations can provide care to fewer than 15%. This is where MobileMed comes in, operating a network of no- or low-cost clinics tailored to the needs of specific populations—13 in their mobile medical vehicles and 9 others in community buildings throughout the county. The idea is to create clinics in the neighborhoods where patients live and work, making available high quality medical care that is both accessible and culturally sensitive. MobileMed recently opened the region's first bi-lingual Farsi clinic; was chosen by the County to become the primary provider of health care to the homeless; launched a third fully-equipped mobile medical van; and partnered with the National Institutes of Health and Suburban Hospital to open a state-of-the-art Heart Clinic. Several clinics focus on combating the chronic diseases common in the medically indigent—obesity and diabetes. All patients receive quality primary care, referrals to pro-bono specialists—physicians in endocrinology, cardiology, pulmonology, and podiatry—and free lab work and diagnostic radiology at Suburban and Adventist Hospitals. Plans are also under way to expand clinics in Gaithersburg and Potomac and to establish a clinic in Germantown that will provide the only health care home of its kind for the increasing number of immigrants in up-county Montgomery County who have no health insurance. In the organization’s 40-year history, not one patient has been turned away: your support can help sustain this remarkable record.
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