FEATURE / MOBILE HEALTH Care Everywhere Mobile health clinics close gaps in care for the underserved by meeting them where they live. By Greyson Honaker A 12-year-old boy had been walking with an unexplained limp for months, but his mother couldn't get him to a provider, the closest of which was 20 miles away. One day, she came across a big bright truck in her son's school parking lot with the name Texas Children's Hospital spanning the length of it. She ventured over tentatively and asked if she could bring her son by. Later that evening, he was in the OR receiving emergency surgery for slipped capital femoral epiphysis, a condition that leads to serious, life-long complications if treatment is delayed. " By coming to patients where they are, mobile health clinics flip the patient-provider dynamic on its head, " says Elizabeth Wallace, executive director of the Mobile Healthcare Association. " That makes them uniquely situated to improve quality and outcomes. " 24 CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS TODAY Winter 2023