Statement of Purpose: St. Luke's Health Charities (SLEHC), in an effort to share useful information regarding lessons learned from our grantees, has created a Best Practices Tool Kit. This Tool Kit contains model products and effective service approaches submitted by our grantees on a broad area of topics. It also contains helpful resource links to answer questions about how these tools can be adapted to similar situations to save time, money, and enhance outcomes.
Product Name: Mobile Health Rural Outreach
Organization Name: St. Mark's Episcopal Church - Bay City
Type of tool: Service
Applicable Topic Area(s):
Purpose: The purpose of MEHOP is to bring state-of-the-art quality care to rural Matagorda County for the medically underserved.
Background: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church is a parish beginning its second century of service to the people of God in Matagorda County. Although St. Mark’s is the only parish in the county, it is one of three Missionary Outposts of the Diocese of Texas serving this region of 40,000 souls in the most southwesterly corner of the Diocese. St. Mark’s is a “sending” parish, dispatching an annual medical mission to Corrento Honduras and supplying and supporting the Lay Vicars of St. John’s Palacios and Christ Church Matagorda. While St. Mark’s gladly serves as the official organizational sponsor for this Mission Proposal, it is truly an outreach of all three churches with EHC and the DOT.
Mission: The Matagorda Episcopal Hospital Outreach “MEHOP” is a proposal to purchase, staff and dispatch a Mobile Medical Clinic Mission to the rural poor in Matagorda County communities which are underserved by current health care delivery systems. With a staff of three, headed by a Nurse Practitioner and supported by volunteers from the congregations, MEHOP will bring spiritual and medical care to those for whom the nearest fixed base care may be 30 miles away. The Mobile Clinic will link volunteers in the community for spiritual and practical care between clinic visits. Four sites are proposed each visited once per week with additional event based outreach as available.
For more information, please contact:
Brenda Harris
101 Avenue F North
Bay City, TX 77414
979-245-2008 (phone)
979-245-0744 (fax)
