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Using Vehicles to Extend Care  This new report by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council describes the experience of 33 HCH projects that use outreach vehicles, ranging from passenger vans to custom-designed clinics on wheels, to provide a variety of health services to people without stable housing. Topics discussed include the rationale for mobile health outreach to homeless populations, services provided and staffing models, types and designs of mobile units, financing and administration of mobile health programs, obstacles encountered and strategies used to address them, and factors to which HCH providers attribute the success of these mobile outreach efforts. The use of mobile units is distinctive yet complementary to other HCH outreach methods, such as “street medicine” provided by walking teams. Those who wish to extend care to impoverished people through mobile outreach, with the ultimate goal of facilitating access to more comprehensive care, can learn from these examples. 
NARRATIVE Click here to download the narrative only (PDF file, 39 pages). APPENDICES Appendices include the survey instrument used to structure interviews from which information in this report was derived and a variety of resources which mobile health programs may find useful:
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