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Dr. Kristi Wick, left, and Christin McWhorter (photo by Angela Foster).<\/p><\/div>\n

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A version of this story first appeared in\u00a0On Call<\/strong><\/a>, a publication of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing.<\/em><\/p>\n

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According to a June 2023 Tennessee Rural Health Care Task Force report, 22 Tennessee counties do not have local hospitals and 13 rural hospitals have closed since 2010.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tennessee placed 40th in a ranking of healthiest states for older adults in the United Health Foundation\u2019s 2023 Senior Report, which provides a portrait of the health and well-being of older adults across the U.S.<\/p>\n

Christin McWhorter has spent her professional career working in community outreach capacities in southeast Tennessee, so she has seen first-hand how dire access to health care is for aging members of the population living in rural and underserved areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have communities in southeast Tennessee where there is no hospital; for example, in Polk County, there is no hospital system there, so people have to drive upwards of two hours to access health care,\u201d says McWhorter, rural health clinic network director with the Rural Health Association of Tennessee.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just older adults. For those who don\u2019t drive or transportation is an issue, getting to primary medical care appointments is a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

A recent grant awarded to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing aims to remedy those challenges.<\/p>\n

The $2.6-million grant from the Tennessee Department of Health is for a project titled ROAD MAP, an acronym for Rural Health and Older ADult Interprofessional Mobile HeAlth Program. ROAD MAP funding will enable purchasing a mobile health vehicle to regularly visit and bring health care and social services professionals to older adults in rural Southern Tennessee communities.<\/p>\n

The mission: Road trips offering education, health promotion, health screening, primary care and social services to those who don\u2019t have easy access.<\/p>\n

Dr. Kristi Wick, UC Foundation assistant professor and Vicky B. Gregg Chair in Gerontology, and UTC Vice Provost and Professor Shewanee Howard-Baptiste are co-principal investigators on the project\u2014leading an interdisciplinary ROAD MAP team that includes School of Nursing assistant professors Latisha Toney and Sarah Treat and members of the UTC Master of Public Health, Occupational Therapy and Social Work departments.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor me, the most innovative part is that it\u2019s bringing multidisciplinary groups together,” McWhorter says. “Not only are they sending nurses doing blood pressure checks or talking about medication reconciliation, but they\u2019ll be bringing all of the different disciplines to provide a holistic viewpoint to older adults\u2019 health and wellbeing.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the mobile health vehicle is acquired, it will serve older adults and caregivers in the Southeast Tennessee Area Agency on Aging and Disability (STAAAD) district, comprised of Bledsoe, Bradley, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, McMinn, Meigs, Polk, Rhea and Sequatchie counties.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do have community health centers inside of our rural counties\u2014and I don\u2019t want to minimize what those health centers do and the services they provide\u2014but for older adults who have special needs as they age, it will be very beneficial to have experts and specialists who understand the health conditions of older adults,\u201d says McWhorter, who received a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from UTC in 2005.<\/p>\n

Before moving into her current role with the Rural Health Association of Tennessee, McWhorter spent 18 years at STAAAD.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis mobile health unit is going to make a huge difference,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s going to remove some of the barriers for people to be able to access health care services and it will help people to have a more regular touchpoint in regards to their health care\u2014such as not having to rely on family members who work to take them to medical appointments. Having something that comes right to their communities will be huge.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Older adults living in rural Tennessee counties are at a higher risk for developing chronic diseases, cognitive disorders and poor health outcomes due to a lack of access to health care, continuity of treatment and resources. A grant awarded to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing aims to mitigate those risks by delivering health care and social services professionals to rural communities.<\/p>\n

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