New Mexico Mobile Screening Program for Miners Brings Care to the Patients
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Description
Highlights a New Mexico program that uses screenings, specialty care via telehealth, and collaboration to meet the healthcare needs of miners with occupational lung disease. Services are provided via a mobile screening clinic housed in a semi that goes to 12 locations in the state.
Author(s)
Allee Mead
Citation
Rural Monitor
Date
02/2018
Organization
Rural Health Information Hub
Tagged as
Benefit enrollment and application
· Chronic disease management
· Chronic respiratory conditions
· Health screening
· Mobile and episodic healthcare delivery
· Occupational health and safety
· Telehealth
· Tribal communities
· New Mexico