The Health Wagon Partners with the Virginia Department of Health to Provide COVID-19 Testing in Rural Southwest Virginia.
Gulley, Tauna; Tyson, Teresa; Collins, Ethan; Helton, Rachel; Hill-Collins, Paula; France, Nicole; Hubbard, Sarah
Why this matters
Forty years of operating in one region buys the trust that outbreak response depends on. The Health Wagon runs two stationary clinics, three mobile units, and a mobile dental unit in southwest Virginia, logging more than 19,000 patient encounters in a year, and partnered with the state health department on COVID-19 testing.
Abstract
The Health Wagon has been providing care for the rural population of southwest Virginia for the past 40 years. The mission of the Health Wagon is to provide quality health care to the medically underserved people in the mountains of Appalachia. It has expanded to two stationary clinics, three mobile units, and a mobile dental unit, logging over 19,000 patients encounters in the past year.