About Driving Health Forward
The Problem
Access to healthcare is everything – and access to primary and essential preventive care remains out of reach for many individuals and families. Chronic lack of access to essential services is a growing threat to the overall health and well-being of communities all across America.
Our Response
Launched in February 2025, Driving Health Forward is a fast-growing national campaign of organizations and individuals dedicated to promoting healthcare system change to grow the mobile healthcare sector. The campaign advocates for the expansion of mobile healthcare as an essential, high-quality, and cost-effective approach to improve access to care, reduce health disparities and build a more resilient healthcare system.
What We're Doing
With support from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, the Driving Health Forward campaign unites and empowers community organizations, schools, healthcare organizations, insurers, mobile health clinic operators, manufacturers, policymakers, and other cross-sector organizations and people, to address the barriers to scaling mobile healthcare.
Driving Health Forward is centered around three P’s – policies, practices, and partnerships.
How We're Doing It
With input and guidance from our participants, the campaign has identified three key initiatives to help achieve Driving Health Forward’s goals:
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A CALL FOR SYSTEMS CHANGE
A comprehensive, research-backed brief that would make the policy case for expanding mobile healthcare as a high-quality, low-cost, and financially sustainable solution. The report will highlight how this approach can ensure access to care and mitigate some of the negative consequences of federal changes to Medicaid.
POLICY BRIEF SERIES FOR MOBILE HEALTHCARE
A monthly series of policy briefs that will provide specific recommendations and solutions to common barriers in mobile healthcare. Each brief would also identify opportunities to support the sector’s growth.
“PROOF OF CONCEPT” PILOT
A multi-state learning collaborative is being considered to test and pilot mobile healthcare as an effective, financially sustainable response to current access-to-care realities. This pilot could also explore how mobile healthcare can address the future consequences of federal Medicaid policy and funding changes.
The campaign is also advocating that others in the sector undertake two key initiatives that will strengthen the mobile health clinic sector as a whole:
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BEST-IN-CLASS MOBILE HEALTH PROGRAMS
An initiative to develop a strategic business roadmap as a best practice planning guide to help potential and existing mobile healthcare organizations ensure they are delivering high-quality, impactful care, with a realistic path to financial sustainability.
MOBILE HEALTHCARE CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE
A monthly series of policy briefs that will provide specific recommendations and solutions to common barriers in mobile healthcare. Each brief would also identify opportunities to support the sector’s growth.