New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University has received an 828-thousand-dollar grant from the United States Department of Agriculture. The grant money, along with 200-thousand dollars from N-Y-I-T, will be used for a mobile medical clinic in the Arkansas Delta region. Dean Dr. Shane Speights (sp-ITES) says this will provide needed screenings and health care in underserved areas in Arkansas.
"The Delta Care-a-van program will allow us to remove several of the obstacles to health care that has prevented local residents from receiving the health services and education they deserve and need," says Speights.
Speights says health care outcomes are the worst in the nation in the Mississippi Delta, which is why this is needed.
The collaboration between N-Y-I-T, the College of Nursing and Health Professions at A-State, U-A-M-S Northeast Family Medicine Residency Program and the St. Bernards Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program will start this fall. The mobile clinic will focus on at least seven counties in northeast Arkansas.
