cr @ July 24, 2006 # No Comment Yet
By Christopher Richards
Since 2003, the Northwest Community Mobile Dental Clinic has been delivering dental care to those in financial need in the townships of Elk Grove, Palatine, and Wheeling, near Chicago. Ron Buch, executive director of Community Health and Outreach at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois, shares some lessons learned after three years […]
cr @ June 19, 2006 # No Comment Yet
by Christopher Richards
Ada Jenkins Center, a non-profit organization in Davidson, NC, took delivery of its new mobile dental clinic last month. Already the vehicle is operating in the North Mecklenburg area, but soon other nearby groups will lease the vehicle.
Six partners are now lined up ready to operate the first mobile regional dental clinics. The […]
cr @ March 20, 2006 # No Comment Yet
by Christopher Richards
When hurricane Katrina shut down the charity hospital system’s breast cancer-screening program in New Orleans, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center (MBPCC) in Baton Rouge responded fast with their new forty-foot long mobile cancer-screening clinic, aptly named The Early Bird.
A free service for uninsured patients, the mobile unit is part of MBPCC’s C.A.R.E. Network […]