Technical Assistance Program

Why go it alone?

If it makes sense for you to partner with mobile health experts when standing up a new mobile clinic, HRSA (and other funding) allows technical assistance partnerships (TAP):

developing mission, metrics & marketing
developing procedures, policies & people
deployment staffing & sustainability
standardization & support

"Particularly for those who need the systems most, it's almost as if we conspired to create the most complex system with the greatest number of barriers to improving outcomes."

- Dr. Tsai, Dir. Center for Medicaid & CHIP

I'm saddened by how many of our neighbors lack access to healthcare. Yes, we've made progress in the last few decades but disparities are still leaving people behind.

The cost is high; besides obvious injustices, health inequality costs America billions, plus related impacts that increase costs down the road.

The causes are many - no insurance, no transportation, no providers, distrust, and more - but these folks have one thing in common; they have no one in their corner. And being alone is the worst feeling.

We believe standardizing a partnership model of engaging vulnerable populations - laying a blanket of best practices over mobile programs across the country - reduces health inequality, curbs skyrocketing inefficiencies, and improves outcomes.

I'm happy you're here with us.

Travis A. LeFever, CEO

Inspiration to Impact in 90 days

Technical Assistance Partnership (TAP)

If you're concerned about the operational challenges that comes with deploying a mobile health clinic, TAP team works with your organization, providing program planning, funding, management, and support, to reduce the frustration, and risk often associated with starting new mobile programs.

Typical clients:

Federal, State Agencies
FQHCs and OTPs
Look-alikes or Free Clinics
Hospital Systems
Behavioral Health Centers
Academic Institutions (workforce)
Not-For-Profit Community Organizations
City, County and State Health Departments
Clinical Trial Networks

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Top Twelve TAP Requests

1. Service Assistance
2. Operator training
3. Stakeholder Lunch & Learns
4. Community Needs Assessments
5. Program Priorities (where, when, and who)
6. Budget Templates (current funding)
7. Sustainability Plan (future funding)
8. Standardized marketing services
9. Community Partner Engagement
10. Data collection & reporting
11. Policy & Procedure templates
12. Operational Assistance Contracts

Program Partners

National Partner Planning

Fostering health equity begins with understanding where, exactly, the care gaps lie.

For example, when availability of buprenorphine services are mapped, 40% of counties have 0 waivered providers. Depicted in this report from OIG, "a swath of the United States from the Upper Midwest region and Great Plains to Texas and the Southeast have large areas of low to no capacity to provide buprenorphine services."

Correlated with the 381 US counties with the highest indicators of opioid misuse and abuse counties, you find areas likely to be facing the most critical need for treatment services (12 percent of all counties nation-wide). 62% of these highest-need counties are in rural areas.

State Partner Planning

When State agencies provide funding or focus to help local providers deploy a mobile health clinic, we use UDS or GIS data to find the people that need them most.

For this example, NC UDS data shows two counties have healthcare complexity - poor health outcomes and a high population of uninsured.

At a high level, targeted deployment of mobile outreach, education or primary care efforts will improve outcomes and reduce Payer spending with minimal investment or risk.

Provider Partner Planning

From the same data set, two high-need counties in Arizona can be highlighted. Notice nearly all waivered providers were driven by economic incentives to locate offices near the major population centers of Phoenix and Tuscon. Persons living and working in the same county may still not have adequate access to waivered providers.

For example, individuals with SUD residing in southwest Maricopa County would have to drive an estimated 115 miles (2 hours) to access buprenorphine services in the Phoenix area. This same individual would have the same access issues if attempting to see a waivered provider in neighboring counties.

Deploying an SUD-oriented mobile clinic in this county to provide outreach, education, and navigation services would be recommended.