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 has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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