The coach can partner with schools at health events and with businesses to launch employer-empowered wellness initiatives. It can bridge the gap to primary care services and allow services to be delivered where healthcare access is geographically challenging or economically disproportionate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone deserves to be cared for, and we aim to overcome barriers by bringing care directly to residents through the Health Care Coach,\u201d says Lisa Liddington, Chief Operating Officer, Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Hecktown Oaks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The unit can be utilized at specialty and community events, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to giving countless community members the high-quality care they need, when and where they need it,\u201d says Baligh R. Yehia, MD, MPP, MSc, President of Jefferson Health.<\/p>\n
The Mobile Health Care Coach is the latest example of Jefferson Health driving top-quality care directly to the community.\u00a0Mobile mammography coaches<\/a> offer women across the region a convenient way to be screened for breast cancer.\u00a0The Miles of Smiles<\/a> van, part of Lehigh Valley Reilly Children\u2019s Hospital, travels to schools to provide dental care for students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The coach can partner with schools at health events and with businesses to launch employer-empowered wellness initiatives. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-210757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}