Every child should have access to health care. But for millions of kids, that isn’t the case. For more than 20 years, Children’s Health Fund has worked to eliminate barriers that prevent homeless and low-income kids from getting the care they need. For many families, lack of health insurance isn’t the only barrier. Take Alan for example, he’s a talkative 5-year old who wants to be a teacher when he grows up. Alan has severe asthma and lives in the vast borderland region of Southern Arizona. The nearest doctor is more than 20 miles away, and finding transportation to get him there has been difficult for his family.
It is challenges like this - as well as others - that prevent many kids from getting to a regular well-child visit to treat a chronic illness before it results in a more serious ER visit or preventable hospitalization.
As the leading pediatric provider of mobile-based health care, dedicated medical teams from Children’s Health Fund programs bring services directly to kids in rural and urban communities via the largest fleet of mobile medical clinics in the U.S.
Today, Alan is thriving due to ongoing visits with CHF’s doctors on our mobile clinic that give his family the tools to manage his illness and life-saving medicine Alan needs to have a chance at a better tomorrow.
