Topic > A Mobile Clinic - 1018

In our effort to address barriers to accessing healthcare, our mission is to improve the well-being and health outcomes of our clients by providing mental health services and preventative care for people with a history of chronic homelessness. With a collaborative effort aided by case management and outreach currently offered by the Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLACC), the mobile clinic will provide additional support services that will focus on bringing mental health, healthcare and social services services directly to our clients. As we strive to integrate our services by locating a mobile clinic, we will focus on disease prevention and health care promotion through primary care, while employing a biopsychosocial approach. Working side by side with the WLACC, the mobile clinic strives to add an important component to existing housing interventions and treatment plans with an emphasis on improving quality of life while creating a safe space for client participation. The mobile clinic will also help facilitate the referral of specialized care to those in need of medical and social resources. By adding a mobile clinic to the WLACC location, many of our clients will have the opportunity to be screened for physical exams and will also be offered referrals to mental health services. Working closely with St. John's Hospital and Martin Luther King County Medical Center, we will rely on their expanded services when hospital admissions are warranted. Services Providing medical services that touch on primary care practice guidelines, follow-up care and treatment on the most common of medical conditions, our medical students and staff will focus on providing informative preventative care. The ... middle of the paper ... Public Health Service Act, applicable under the federal designation of a nonprofit health center, would allow funding to start up the mobile clinic. In funding a program that focuses on addressing the unmet needs of our clients, federal funding will be critical to launching the mobile clinic that will bring centralized health services to the WLACC. Placing health services at WLACC that provide primary care, preventive and screening services, and adhere to federal case management and fiscal management requirements, would further improve qualifications for targeted funding, based on the fact that WLACC is a non-profit organization. for profit. Meeting federal budget accounting requirements by outlining goals and identifying an evaluation process will also help develop a business plan that will facilitate the creation of the mobile clinic initiative.