UTHSC mobile health unit expands rural access while educating nursing students
University of Tennessee Health Science Center Chancellor Peter Buckley speaks during a Thursday, May 11 unveiling ceremony for a mobile health unit dedicated to expanding rural health care access in Tennessee. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The mobile health unit is 24 feet long and 8 feet wide with a clinical space of 117 square feet that features a check-in area and one exam room, as well as telemedicine equipment, computer stations and clinical assessment equipment.
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Nurse rural healthcare UTHSC provider shortage College of NursingAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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