{"id":149726,"date":"2026-06-02T23:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=149726"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:06:25","slug":"mobile-health-care-coach-to-fuel-increased-access-throughout-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=149726","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Health Care Coach to Fuel Increased Access Throughout Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motor coach to bring health services to schools, businesses and community events<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

EASTON, Pa. (Jun. 2, 2026)\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014\u00a0Jefferson Health has launched its newest health unit on wheels: the Mobile Health Care Coach.<\/p>\n

At a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Hecktown Oaks, health system leaders turned the key and started the engine that will fuel increased healthcare access throughout Northampton County.<\/p>\n

The motor coach is equipped with two exam rooms where patients can get vaccines, blood work and tests. There is also virtual care technology so patients can connect with their clinicians from afar.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Health Care Coach provides many of the same state-of-the-art technologies found in primary care, JeffExpress or ExpressCARE offices,\u201d says Eric Bean, DO, emergency medicine physician.<\/p>\n

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.<\/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\u2013<\/strong>Hecktown Oaks.<\/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>\u00a0offer women across the region a convenient way to be screened for breast cancer.\u00a0The Miles of Smiles<\/a>\u00a0van, part of Lehigh Valley Reilly Children\u2019s Hospital, travels to schools to provide dental care for students.<\/p>\n

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About Jefferson\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jefferson is reimagining healthcare and higher education to create unparalleled value throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. More than 65,000 people strong, Jefferson is dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow’s professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic\/programmatic, clinical and applied research.\u00a0Thomas Jefferson University<\/strong><\/a>, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.\u00a0Jefferson Health<\/strong><\/a>, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit healthcare systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 33 hospital campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region.\u00a0Jefferson Health Plans<\/strong><\/a>, through Health Partners Plans Inc., is a not-for-profit managed healthcare organization offering a broad range of health coverage options to more than 370,000 members for more than 40 years.<\/p>\n

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Motor coach to bring health services to schools, businesses and community events\u00a0 EASTON, Pa. (Jun. 2, 2026)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Jefferson Health has launched its newest health unit on wheels: the Mobile Health Care Coach. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Hecktown Oaks, health system leaders turned the key and started the engine that will fuel increased healthcare … Continue reading Mobile Health Care Coach to Fuel Increased Access Throughout Northampton County<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/jefferson-a.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149727,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149726\/revisions\/149727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}