Montgomery County Memorial Hospital is improving access to health care in rural areas with Heartland Mobile Health.

Video: Heartland Mobile Health brings new approach to health care

Anyone who needs a primary care visit, we will take care of them, Ron Kloewer of Montgomery County Memorial Hospital said.

The new mobile health clinic is making stops in towns in Southwest Iowa.

This is really about the transportation needs of people and meeting them where they are at, Kloewer said.

For truck driver Barry Werner, driving two hours to see his doctor for a sinus infection isnt an option.

My doctor was a long ways off and this was so much more convenient coming here than it would have been going to them, Werner said.

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There's no need to have paper charts, and the clinicians have access to all the medical records historical efforts and so forth, Kloewer said.

With all the features of a regular doctor's clinic, it's even handicap accessible to fit everyone's needs.

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Heartland Mobile Health brings new approach to health care