Mobile Healthcare Clinics: Are They Effective?
Mobile health clinics offer a variety of benefits from promoting value-based wellness, driving better outcomes, and improving patients access to care. Creating a mobile clinic or mobile wellness tour can provide you and your clients with these many benefits and more.
There are various locations throughout the country that are considered “health deserts,” meaning they suffer from limited care access and other healthcare barriers based on socioeconomic status. However, mobile healthcare clinic and wellness tours can change this. A mobile wellness tour provides these patients the opportunity to have a clinic show up in their neighborhoods, where they work, etc. allowing them more access than ever before. A mobile wellness tour can provide care for those undeserved areas and help connect patients, who may have otherwise gone without care, with more healthcare options. Mobile wellness vehicles can be utilized by health systems working to reach their identified undeserved patient populations better.
Are mobile health clinics and wellness tours effective? These tours have proven to be very effective at connecting patients with primary and preventive care in a variety of environments and healthcare segments. Mobile clinics deliver on value-based care and wellness because they focus on preventive and primary care and can detect at-risk individuals early. This allows for early interventions which leads to higher recovery rates and lower eventual health costs. Mobile clinics and wellness tours make it easier for patients to connect and engage with their healthcare providers.
