Message from the CEO

Mobile Medicine Will Increase Access to Health Care in South Jersey
It has been some time since we witnessed such excitement from local citizens, elected officials, community-based organizations and agency representatives about something in health care. In this case, it is good news!

Southern Jersey Family Medical Centers, Inc. recently held an“open house” in both Burlington and Atlantic Counties to introduce our new “Mobile Medic” units for our service areas. There seemed to be honest excitement about the possibilities of bringing medical services to areas where medically underserved patients need it most.

The anticipation of scheduling the “Mobile Medic” to make local “calls” to community agencies and schools must have reminded people of the day when doctors actually made house calls. I believe that the warmth and anticipation people feel about the concept of a clinician actually coming to them seem to suggest that humanism can still be exhibited in the medical profession. Humanism is an emotion that seems to have been lost in recent years in the medical profession. We are trying to get it back!

Southern Jersey Family Medical Centers’ mission and history is embedded in providing services in medically underserved areas, including outreach and health education services to migrants families, seasonal farm workers and others on more than 150 farm camps in South Jersey.

We share the excitement of others as our two new Mobile Medic units move into communities to address medical needs of children and families. The medical and dental needs in our target areas are great and we hope to address many of them with our new service component.

Mobile medicine is not a new phenomenon. Mountainous and rural communities have used mobile vehicles to deliver health care decades. In some areas, mobile medicine is the only medical care families receive.

Watch for our Mobile Medic in your area, or call 1(800) 486-0131 for information on services in your town.