Fort Walton Beach Medical Center and Twin Cities Hospital offers a Mobile Health Clinic designed to help employers and their employees gain easy access to primary care. The service will not be located in a hospital or in an office, but will be provided at the workplace in a new Mobile Health Clinic vehicle. The mobile on-site service will be offered first to teachers and staff of the Okaloosa County School District.
The Mobile Health Clinic is the result of meetings with area employers and health insurance agents to determine how the hospitals can be partners in finding innovative ways to help employees stay healthy and for employers to slow down the rising costs of healthcare.
The Mobile Health Clinic does not replace the existing relationship a patient may have with their primary care physician and that the main goal of the service is to:
- Connect someone who doesn’t already have a primary care physician with on-site care
- Connect patients to a primary care physician of their choice in the area
- Establish on-going care with a local primary care physician
Primary care is most often a patient’s first point of entry into the health care system and as the continuing focal point for all needed health care services, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. Primary care includes disease prevention, treatment of acute and chronic illnesses, health promotion, and health maintenance.