Central Health Unveils East Travis County Mobile Clinic

EAST AUSTIN, TX — Central Health-funded CommUnityCare Health Centers officials said they will start seeing patients on Monday inside a new mobile clinic parked in Colony Park and Creedmoor, communities in eastern Travis County region marked by high rates of uninsured residents, families living in poverty, and limited access to health services.

Inside the 40-foot bus, CommUnityCare will offer primary care, preventive care, vaccines, lab services, chronic disease management, and limited pharmacy services. The bus will be up and running in earnest on Monday, June 24. The mobile clinic will be open 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays and Fridays at Barbara Jordan Elementary School (6711 Johnny Morris Road), Wednesdays at the Turner-Roberts Recreation Center (7201 Colony Loop Drive), and Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Creedmoor Community Center (12511 FM 1625).

Central Health, CommUnityCare Health Centers, Travis County and City of Creedmoor officials celebrated the arrival of the mobile clinic at the Creedmoor Community Center on Thursday, June 20, with a ceremonial ribbon cutting. The mobile clinic is now poised to welcome its first official patient on Monday, June 24, at Barbara Jordan Elementary School.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony took place from 10 a.m. to noon at Creedmor Community Center, 12511 FM1625. Among those attending were Travis County Pct. 4 Commissioner Margaret Gomez, Travis County Pct. 4 Constable George Morales, City of Creedmoor Officials, community members, and representatives of Central Health and Central Health-funded CommUnityCare Health Centers.

Health statistics from eastern Travis County speak to the need for the mobile clinic:

• In Colony Park, 34 percent of residents are uninsured versus 15 percent for Travis County
• In Colony Park, up to 31 percent of residents live in poverty versus 14 percent for Travis County
• In Colony Park, the unemployment rate is 7 percent versus 3 percent for Travis County
• In Creedmoor, the median household income is $50,000 versus $68,350 for Travis County
• In Creedmoor, 46 percent of residents receive public insurance or are uninsured versus 36 percent for Travis County.

About Central Health

Central Health is the local public agency that connects Travis County residents with low income to quality health care. To that end, Central Health works with a network of partners to eliminate health disparities and reach its vision of Travis County becoming a model healthy community.

About CommUnityCare Health Centers

CommUnityCare’s vision is to improve the health of the community by increasing access to the best care possible. Today, CUC provides services at 25 locations throughout Travis and Bastrop Counties. Each year, its health centers provide approximately 336,000 medical and dental patient appointments representing more than 98,000 individual patients.