Mobile Health Map

Mobile healthcare is having a moment! This week, Kait Guild, Assistant Director at Mobile Health Map, is in Washington, D.C. for the 2026 National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) Fly-In, joining partners, advocates, and healthcare leaders from across the country to help elevate the role mobile clinics play in connecting communities to care.

We're especially looking forward to the Care in Motion: The Community Health Center Mobile Health Experience, where a mobile clinic from Refuah Health Center will be on-site at Capitol Hill, giving policymakers and healthcare leaders the opportunity to experience mobile healthcare firsthand.

As mobile healthcare continues to gain momentum nationwide, we're excited for the conversations ahead about the future of the field and the opportunities to strengthen and grow mobile care across communities.

📷: Our partners (left to right) Drew Summerford (Matthews Specialty Vehicles, Inc), Cheyne Rauber (Matthews Specialty Vehicles), Stewart Hudson (Leon Lowenstein Foundation), Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP (National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), Kait Guild, Jermaine Pope (NACHC), Chad Smith (Mobile Specialty Vehicles)

In too many parts of South Carolina, expecting mothers are forced to travel long distances just to access prenatal and postpartum care. These maternity deserts create serious barriers for families and contribute to preventable health complications for moms and babies.

Now, a powerful new investment is bringing care directly to the communities that need it most.

Clemson Rural Health received $7.7 million from the South Carolina Department of Public Health to launch the B.L.O.O.M. Clinic, South Carolina’s first comprehensive mobile maternity program. The mobile unit will provide prenatal and postpartum care, chronic disease management, lactation support, remote monitoring, and connections to community-based services across underserved rural counties.

“This is an exciting initiative that brings comprehensive maternal care to women in a cluster of maternity desert counties and will save lives of moms and babies,” said Ron Gimbel, Clemson University professor and director of Clemson Rural Health.

❤️ Our FAVORITE part: The grant includes multi-year operating support, creating long-term sustainability and helping ensure families can count on consistent, trusted care close to home. ❤️

This investment is about more than a mobile unit. It’s about creating lasting access to care for mothers and babies in communities that have been overlooked for far too long.

Read the full story: https://news.clemson.edu/clemson-rural-health-receives-7-7m-maternal-care-access-grant-to-improve-care-of-mothers-and-babies-in-south-carolina/

In Weld County, Colorado — a county spanning 4,000 square miles — the Weld County Government health department launched a mobile clinic in 2025 to meet people where they are. A year later, the unit is delivering immunizations, STI screenings, preventive care, health education, and connections to essential services directly in communities.

What stands out most is not just what the mobile unit delivers — but how it shows up. Sometimes it’s a screening. Sometimes it’s a conversation. And sometimes, it’s a moment that changes everything — like a resident stopping for a hygiene kit, returning with questions, and discovering an undiagnosed health condition that led to follow-up care.

As more public health departments explore mobile care, stories like this show what becomes possible when care moves beyond clinic walls.

Read the full story and get inspired by this mobile clinic: https://www.mobilehealthmap.org/how-one-public-health-department-is-using-a-mobile-clinic-to-expand-reach-and-connect-more-people-to-care/

Heading into the long weekend feeling inspired by what’s happening in Ohio. 🚐❤️

Mobile clinics across the state are building momentum and bringing healthcare directly into communities.

3 of many on our radar:

➡️ Coplin Health Systems recently launched mobile health unit services, bringing preventive care, chronic disease management, wellness services, and more directly to residents in the Mid-Ohio Valley.

➡️ Mercy Health’s mobile mammography van is traveling across Northwest Ohio, expanding access to convenient 3D breast cancer screenings for women across 21 counties.

➡️ Ohio University Heritage Community Clinic is expanding free mobile clinic services this summer, providing primary care, screenings, and women’s health services to uninsured and underinsured residents in rural communities across southeast Ohio.

We can’t wait to see the impact they continue to make in communities across Ohio. 👏

Rural health transformation is at a turning point.

In this powerful piece published in Health Affairs, our Assistant Director Kait Guild makes a clear case for what comes next. With historic investments like the Rural Health Transformation Program, we have a real opportunity to expand access to care in rural communities. But without long-term planning for sustainability, integration, and operations, we risk repeating a familiar pattern: care that arrives, then disappears.

The solution is within reach. Mobile clinics are already delivering results at scale— expanding access, improving outcomes, and strengthening connections to care. What’s needed now is thoughtful implementation that treats mobile health as a lasting part of the healthcare system, not a temporary fix.

Thank you, Kait, for putting a spotlight on this critical moment for rural health and mobile health.

Read the full article to see what’s at stake — and what it will take to get it right. https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/rural-health-transformation-investments-must-pair-mobile-health-1777468557815