About The Health Wagon

• The Health Wagon is a nonprofit organization providing mobile health services to the medically underserved in Southwest Virginia since 1980.
• The Health Wagon is the oldest mobile clinic in the nation.
• The Health Wagon visits thirteen sites in Virginia’s Buchanan, Dickenson, Russell, Lee, Scott, and Wise counties (and the City of Norton) to serve a severely medically underserved population.
• Every dollar donated to the Health Wagon is approximately $100 reaped in health care benefits.
• In 2018, the Health Wagon assisted more than 4,000 patients obtain access to care valued at over $5 million.
• The Health Wagon provides:

• Health Wagon Services
• Acute Disease Management
• Behavioral Health Clinic
• Cardiac Specialty Clinics
• Cardiovascular Disease Management
• Chronic Disease Management
• Colposcopy Clinic
• Community and group health coaching
• Cystoscopies
• Dentures at low cost
• Dermatology Clinics
• Diabetic Education
• Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Clinic
• Endocrinology Clinics
• Eye Exams and Eyeglasses
• Hearing Aid Assistance
• Influenza Vaccine Clinics
• Lab Services
• Medicare and Medicaid Enrollment
• Medical Therapy Management

• Nephrology Specialty Clinics
• Ostomy Clinics
• Pastoral Care
• Pharmacy Connect & Medication Assistance
• Physical Assessments
• Podiatry Clinics
• Pre-Op and Post-Op Surgery Clinics
• Psychiatry
• Psychological Counseling
• Pulmonary Clinic
• Referrals & Follow-up Systems
• Substance Use Disorder Counseling
• Sports Physicals
• Telemedicine Clinics
• Transportation Assistance
• Ultrasound Clinics
• Urology Clinics
• Women’s Health Clinic (mammography and pap smears)
• Wound Care Clinics
• X-Ray Clinics

Components of the Health Care Outreach

• Nearly one million residents of Virginia lack health insurance.
• The poverty rate among the population served by the Health Wagon is 70% to 140% higher than in the rest of Virginia.

• 43.4% live on incomes less than 200% of the federal poverty rate, compared with 27.1% statewide.
• 49.3% of those over the age of 25 do not have a high school diploma, compared with 24.8% statewide.
• Chronic unemployment rates are five times higher than the statewide average.

• Adults in the Health Wagon coverage area age 35-64 die 30% earlier than the same population in the rest of Virginia.
• Additionally, as compared with the rest of Virginia:

• Health Wagon clients are 21% more likely to die from diseases of the heart.
• Health Wagon clients are 14% more likely to die from diabetes.
• Health Wagon clients are 35% more likely to die from COPD.
• Health Wagon clients are 40% more likely to die from unintentional injuries.
• Health Wagon clients are 50% more likely to die from suicide.