MobileMed/NIH Heart Clinic at Suburban Hospital

For over 45 years, MobileMed’s mission has been to improve the health of low-income people who face the greatest barriers to care access. Our goal is to serve as a primary care medical home - providing high quality, comprehensive healthcare, delivered in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner. In recognition of our successful positioning to address the needs of our community’s medically underserved individuals, MobileMed was awarded Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) designation in August 2015. Our commitment to accessibility is achieved through multiple fixed site and mobile van locations throughout Montgomery County, Maryland, extensive outreach in collaboration with diverse faith-based and ethnic organizations, and a policy of never turning anyone away for inability to pay. We have seven primary care clinics and two specialty clinics located in areas of the greatest need. Even as we have assisted many patients to obtain coverage through the ACA, we continue to serve thousands of patients who are ineligible. In FY15, our multilingual staff of ~35, plus 75 volunteer clinicians, provided over 14,000 medical visits to a diverse population of nearly 5,000 low-income adults.