The Health Wagon Partners with the Virginia Department of Health to Provide COVID-19 Testing in Rural Southwest Virginia

Tauna Gulley; Teresa Tyson; Ethan Collins; Rachel Helton; Paula Hill-Collins; Nicole France; Sarah Hubbard

doi:10.13023/jah.0203.12

The Health Wagon Partners with the Virginia Department of Health to Provide COVID-19 Testing in Rural Southwest Virginia

J Appalach Health. 2020 Jul 19;2(3):146-149. doi: 10.13023/jah.0203.12. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Tauna Gulley¹, Teresa Tyson², Ethan Collins³, Rachel Helton⁴, Paula Hill-Collins⁵, Nicole France, Sarah Hubbard

Affiliations

¹ The University of Pikeville, taunagulley@upike.edu.
² The Health Wagon, drtysonnp@thehealthwagon.org.
³ The Health Wagon, ecollins@thehealthwagon.org.
⁴ The Health Wagon, rhelton@thehealthwagon.org.
⁵ The Health Wagon, paulahill@thehealthwagon.org.

Abstract

The Health Wagon has been providing care for the rural population of southwest Virginia for the past 40 years. The mission of the Health Wagon is to provide quality health care to the medically underserved people in the mountains of Appalachia. It has expanded to two stationary clinics, three mobile units, and a mobile dental unit, logging over 19,000 patients encounters in the past year.

Keywords: Appalachia; COVID-19; health department; health services; mobile health clinic; rural health care.