Mobile Health Program

Our mission is to provide free health care, health promotion, and disease prevention to uninsured and underinsured individuals in southern Arizona.

Mobile Health Program Services

The Mobile Health Program is a fully licensed clinic and uses credentialed providers to deliver full-spectrum family medicine throughout southern Arizona, offering no-cost clinical services to uninsured individuals, including:

General primary care and preventive services
Well-woman checks and gynecological services
Comprehensive prenatal care
Reproductive health services
Child physicals and sports physicals
Chronic disease management
Minor procedures
Medicated-assistance treatment for opioid addiction

Mobile Health team in front of mobile clinic

The Mobile Health Program was established in 1976 by Dr. Augusto Ortiz and Martha Ortiz as a free, mobile clinic for uninsured and low-income patients in southern Arizona, staffed by family medicine physicians, residents and University of Arizona student volunteers.

As a medical safety net for those who may otherwise not receive care, our clinic on wheels sees an average of 575 unique patients over 2,000 patient appointments annually.

Who We Serve

Each year the Mobile Health Program provides no-cost clinical care to uninsured and underinsured patients at community partner sites.
Since 2003, the Mobile Health Program has provided high-quality prenatal care to individuals who may otherwise receive none, due to cost. In collaboration with family medicine residents and faculty from the College of Medicine – Tucson, the MHP staff provides prenatal care, counseling, and prenatal and postpartum health education. Deliveries take place at the Banner – University Medical Center.

Where We Serve

Find our calendar of clinics on our Instagram page at @mobilehealthprogram.

Community partners include:

March of Dimes
Sunnyside School District
Tucson Unified School District
Southside Workers Center
Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona
Vida Nueva Resource Center
St. John’s Catholic Church

If you would like to partner with Mobile Health, please contact Alicia Dinsmore at aliciadinsmore@arizona.edu

Financially, the Mobile Health Program is sustained by private donations, grants and the Ortiz Endowment, which was established in 2000 by Dr. Andy Nichols to serve as a permanent sponsorship fund.

Your donations are critical for providing medical care to those who need it most. Each dollar spent on Mobile Health provides a $30 return to the community. Please consider donating to support this critical service.

Donate to Mobile Health

Donate to the Ortiz Endowment

Annually, about 20 students engage through the program through internships, student worker positions and volunteer hours. For more information on opportunities, please contact Viridiana Johnson at viridianaj@arizona.edu.