Saturdays, in East Contra Costa County, the Mobile Health Clinic (MHC) provides free preventive and urgent medical care for community members who are uninsured or unable to pay for care. Patients are seen according to severity of condition and clinic capacity. Clinic registration is held during the first hour of each clinic until capacity is reached. Spanish-speaking staff members are available.
Mobile clinic services provide a link for patients to a medical care system through referrals and collaboration with area providers such as La Clinica de la Raza and Contra Costa Health Services. For clinic operation hours and to speak with mobile clinic staff call (925) 941-7940.
More than 45 doctors, nurses, and support staff from John Muir Health and the John Muir Physician Network volunteer their time in partnership with La Clínica de la Raza and Contra Costa Health Services.
During the week, the MHC operates with the Contra Costa County Health Care for the Homeless program in various locations such as the Monument Community area of Concord, Bay Point, and Antioch. CCHS provides bilingual clinical and support staff while John Muir Health provides the Mobile Health Clinic and driver. For questions about the Contra Costa Health Care for the Homeless clinic call (925) 608-5300.
One evening a week JMH partners with RotaCare of the Bay Area and the Concord Rotary Club volunteers to provide free preventive and urgent medical care. JMH provides the Mobile Health Clinic and driver. Mt. Diablo Unified School District provides the Cambridge Elementary School multipurpose room for patient registration.
Mobile Health Clinic Volunteer Quotes
"We offer them [the patients] a safe place to get the care that ALL people deserve."
- Dr. Jolin, Physician Volunteer
"It is a win-win situation. The patients receive professional health care from someone who comes to work ... because she wants to be there. I myself receive the gift of learning with each day I volunteer."
- Alma Pack, Nurse Volunteer
Patient Story
"The patient called after her surgery to thank the staff for their persistence and concern for her health."
Roza is a 33-year old uninsured and undocumented Latino female that came to the Mobile Health Clinic with complaints of abdominal mass with increasing pain. ACT scan revealed a large ovarian cyst. The patient was referred to La Clinica de La Raza for Operation Access. It was determined after a three month wait that the mass was too large to qualify for Operation Access. The patient’s only other choice was to apply for emergency Medi-Cal assistance. After 28 telephone interventions by Mobile Health Clinic staff, the patient applied for assistance and had surgery to remove the cyst, which had grown even larger, and to repair a hernia that had also developed. The patient called after her surgery to thank the staff for their persistence and concern for her health.
Partners
- La Clínica de la Raza
- Contra Costa Health Services
- RotaCare Free Clinic
- Mt. Diablo Unified School District
- Concord Rotary Club