Ronald McDonald Care Mobile

visits the Greater Hobby Airport area each week.
 
Our schedule is as follows:

Monday:
Cornelius Elementary
Tuesday:
Lewis Elementary
Wed:
Golfcrest Elementary
Thurs:
Brookline Elementary

We also see students (and their siblings) from all
other schools in the area ages 0-18years.

For appts call:
 832-723-8597
(mobile clinic),
or
832-824-6786
(office)

RMHC^® is proud to sponsor the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile^®, a two-room mobile medical unit that provides quality healthcare completely free of charge to the medically under-served in our communities.  Run by Texas Children’s Hospital, the Care Mobile^® has a full-time doctor and nurse available throughout the week.

The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile® gets a makeover!

Depending on specific community needs, services may include:

• Primary care
• Well-child visits and Immunizations
• Developmental screening
• Diagnosis and treatment of chronic disease
• Hygiene and health education
• Asthma prevention and treatment
• Pulmonary function testing
• School and sports physicals
• Prenatal care for pregnant teens
• Injury prevention education
• Nutrition counseling
• Mental health services and other pediatric
  specialty services, such as cardiology and ENT
• Blood collection

   

RMHC^® proudly supports this program since this is one of the only Care Mobiles in the nation. The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile^® will provide access to quality health care for students attending 15 schools in the Hobby Airport area. Services include free, comprehensive well-child checks, illness treatment and immunizations.

Part of that success is due to visiting its key schools on the same day each week. For instance, the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile® will visit Cornelius Elementary every Monday and visit the Lewis, Golfcrest and Brookline schools on their designated days. Other schools in the area will feed into those visits.

Community rapport is important because parents must be present at all visits, including walk-ins for ill visits and immunizations. At each visit, clinic volunteers help parents with the process of applying for low-cost health insurance. The ultimate goal of the mobile care program is to find every child in Houston a permanent medical home by helping families apply for health insurance. (Taken from TCH news release ).

The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile provides access to quality health care for students attending 15 schools in the Hobby Airport area. Services include free, comprehensive well-child checks, illness treatment and immunizations.
 
The new clinic will follow the winning formula of the SuperKids Mobile Pediatric Clinic, which has had more than 18,000 patient visits since it was rolled out in August 2000 as the gift of the Junior League of Houston.

Part of that success is due to visiting its key schools on the same day each week. For instance, the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile will visit Cornelius Elementary every Monday and visit the Lewis, Golfcrest and Brookline schools on their designated days.
Other schools in the area will feed into those visits. "It takes a while to gain the trust of the community, but that’s an important part of the program,” said Dr. Anu McDonald, medical director of the Texas Children’s Hospital pediatric mobile clinic program. Community rapport is important because parents must be present at all visits, including walk-ins for ill visits and immunizations.

At each visit, clinic volunteers help parents with the process of applying for low-cost health insurance. The ultimate goal of the mobile care program is to find every child in Houston a permanent medical home by helping families apply for health insurance. SuperKids has shown how successful these efforts can be. After its first year, more than 80 percent of the patients it contacted had received health insurance. Also, surveys at schools where they provide service show steadily rising rates of students with health insurance.

With the addition of the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile, Texas Children’s mobile clinic staff will increase from the four SuperKids team members to include a pediatrician, clinic coordinator, three nurse practitioners, two nurses and two medical assistants. Together, they can double their efforts to help every Houston child find a permanent medical home.