Early Bird Mobile Medical Clinic
Early detection saves lives. Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center’s C.A.R.E. Network, intent upon increasing its screening services and ultimately lowering cancer mortality rates in its service area and beyond, now has the only mobile medical clinic in the area dedicated to comprehensive community cancer screenings and patient education.
The clinic on wheels, named the Early Bird in reference to its mission of early detection, will allow us to expand free screenings directly into rural, remote communities that need them most.
The Early Bird allows the Center’s C.A.R.E. Network to provide free community cancer screenings across a broad region of our state, a service area that is home to one-fourth of the entire population of Louisiana and many of its poorest residents. It is bringing life-saving early detection to people who do not have health insurance and could otherwise not afford it.
ExxonMobil made a gift of $100,000, the largest single donation to the project. The Charles M. and Mary D. Grant Foundation and the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the advocacy of Senator Mary Landrieu and Congressman Richard Baker also helped in the purchase or the mobile medical clinic.
Early Bird Mobile Medical clinic
Early Bird Mobile Medical Clinic exam room
