Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - beebe healthcare is developing an innovative mobile health initiative, which aims to expand access to its addiction and…

Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - beebe healthcare is developing an innovative mobile health initiative, which aims to expand access to its addiction and primary care services where a mobile health clinic will play a starring role. A congressionally directed spending hrsa grant will enable beebe medical foundation (BMF) on behalf of beebe healthcare to purchase a 36-foot class a RV and renovate and customize the interior and exterior to serve as a fully contained mobile health clinic (MHC) to deliver substance use disorder treatment and priority community health services. In addition, beebe will purchase a sprinter crew van to support the MHC by transporting additional staff, equipment and supplies to community sites to provide even greater and more flexible outreach and healthcare services. This full complement of equipment will result in beebe's ability to bring healthcare services directly to hard-to-reach populations throughout rural southern delaware, and is an efficient form of healthcare delivery that improves health outcomes not only on an individual level, but on a population level, as well. By removing the barrier of the traditional brick-and-mortar care facilities and hospitals, the MHC delivers our healthcare providers and their community-based mental health and primary care services and programs to those struggling with mental health and addiction, and other priority health needs directly in the neighborhoods and/or areas they frequent. In this way, beebe aims to improve the design, delivery and execution of its population health programs, and address inequities in population health outcomes, including the exacerbation of pre-existing disparities that prevail among our disenfranchised, and under-served and homeless due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. A mobile health clinic delivering addiction medicine and priority community health services will expand beebe healthcare's on-demand access to its high-value, patient centered, compassionate and trauma-infor MED care for those most vulnerable, and at high-risk in our sussex county community.