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OUR PROGRAMS

Outreach

Mobile clinics and mobile outreach teams are key to Mercy Care’s ability to proactively address physical and mental health
issues in populations that are overlooked. Using two coaches (clinics), one shuttle, seven vans and four cars, Mercy Care builds
relationships through providing treatment that leads to wellness, housing and reconnecting people to their support groups such
as family or church.

Mobile clinics CHOP Street Medicine

The mobile coach goes out each The Community Health Outreach On week nights, a psychiatrist,
week day to provide primary care, Program (CHOP) seeks chronically nurse practitioner, registered
behavioral health, and screenings homeless people on the streets, nurse, healthcare students and a
(breast and cervical cancer, HIV, in parks and shelters. They earn case manager team up for Street
TB and general health). The rolling trust by being visible in Mercy Care Medicine. Together, they provide
clinic visits shelters, churches and vans five days a week, providing mental and physical healthcare
other organizations that serve the hygiene kits, jackets, water or transit including medications on the street,
poor and homeless. Three times a cards and then connecting people under bridges and in parking lots.
month, Mercy Care also provides to services that can be both life- Telemedicine often helps keep the
mammograms on Emory Saint changing and life-saving. team effectively staffed while on
Joseph’s mobile coach at two the street.
locations and as often as possible
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at health fairs.

Changing lives patients treated encounters

In addition to case managers who work to place people in housing, vital to good health, Mercy Care’s vehicles also are
used by a community health liaison who works with Atlanta’s safety net hospital, Grady, to reduce use of the emergency
department for preventable issues. Through education, skills training and connections, people’s lives are changed.
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