For over forty years, the mission of MobileMed’s volunteers, supporters and staff has been to provide quality health care to the uninsured, low income, working poor and homeless in Montgomery County, Maryland. Our belief is that free or low-cost medical care can and should be universally delivered in a respectful, competent and compassionate manner to anyone who is in need. To that end, every effort is made to ensure patient-friendly and responsive delivery systems that enhance patient independence and dignity. MobileMed’s goal is to reduce the barriers that often are a barrier to receiving health care, such as long waiting times for appointments, providers who don’t understand cultural issues, paperwork that is difficult to understand, and plans of care that are difficult to implement due to high costs or other issues.
The volunteers and staff of MobileMed currently serve more than 7,000 of our community’s most vulnerable and isolated residents. Our patients are the uninsured, homeless, unemployed, political refugees, victims of torture and immigrants from throughout the world. Hailing from more than 100 countries, many suffer from one or more chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular problems, obesity, high cholesterol, hepatitis, asthma, assorted allergies, orthopedic disabilities and cancer. All struggle with the reality of a community whose need for quality health care exceeds its capacity to deliver.
A Letter From The President
November, 2008 Dear Friends,
Earlier this year, Mobile Medical Care concluded its yearlong celebration of forty years of service to the medically underserved in Montgomery County. The marking of that milestone provided an opportunity to look at the organization’s beginnings and growth, while still looking towards a future that enables MobileMed to continue its mission – to provide free or low-cost quality health care to our community’s homeless, low-income, uninsured, and working poor in a respectful, competent, and compassionate manner.
Our purpose has not changed, but the number of our neighbors in need of our services has increased substantially. There are now more than 100,000 persons in Montgomery County who cannot afford to obtain medical care. We, and the other community clinics are doing our best to meet this need, but together we serve less than 15% of the people who require vital health care.
MobileMed has responded aggressively and innovatively. We have increased our number of volunteers, expanded our scope of primary and specialty care services, and substantially increased our public, private, corporate, and foundation funding. MobileMed now has three mobile medical vans in service and operates 23 clinics. With the strong support of Adventist Health Care, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Suburban Hospital and Washington Adventist Hospital, we are able to provide comprehensive primary and preventive medical care at low or no cost to those in need, as well as to increase the number of persons that we serve.
Montgomery County (through the leadership of County Executive Ike Leggett, County Council President Mike Knapp, and County Council Health and Human Services Committee Members George Leventhal, Duchy Trachtenberg, Roger Berliner, and many others) continues to help provide the framework for the community’s response to the growing need. But, MobileMed cannot continue to meet the ever-increasing needs of those without access to health care without your help. We require more volunteer professionals in our clinics and more money to cover the higher costs associated with quality care, and more public support..
Thank you for supporting Mobile Medical Care as the foundation of our community’s health initiative, and for enabling us to remain a strong and vibrant organization, dedicated to serving those in need.
Sincerely,
Patricia Baptiste, President Mobile Medical Care
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