EUGENE, Ore. — White Bird Clinic has expanded its Mobile Integrated Care Initiative through a new partnership with Community Supported Shelters, increasing access to community-based healthcare services for individuals experiencing homelessness in Eugene, White Bird said in a media release on Tuesday.
The new weekly mobile clinic launched this month at Community Supported Shelters’ outreach location on West 11th Avenue and now provides onsite medical services every Tuesday afternoon from 1 to 4 p.m. The expansion represents the second active location within White Bird’s growing mobile healthcare program, following the launch of mobile services at St. Vincent de Paul’s Schlies Resource Center in 2025.
White Bird says the program is designed to reduce barriers that often prevent people experiencing homelessness from accessing consistent healthcare, including transportation limitations, past trauma within institutional systems, untreated behavioral health conditions, and difficulties navigating traditional medical settings.
Operating directly within community spaces where people already seek support, Whit Bird says the mobile clinic provides primary care services, basic diagnostic testing, wound treatment, medication support, health screenings, referrals, and connections to additional medical and social services.
“Our goal is to make healthcare more accessible, more responsive, and more relationship-centered,” said Amée Markwardt, White Bird Clinic’s executive director. “Many individuals living outside or experiencing housing instability delay care for years because traditional systems can feel inaccessible or overwhelming. Bringing services directly into trusted environments helps create earlier intervention opportunities and stronger continuity of care.”
The mobile program is staffed by a small interdisciplinary healthcare team working from a specially equipped medical van that allows providers to deliver care directly onsite. White Bird developed the initiative through a phased expansion process, adding service locations in response to demonstrated community demand and strong collaboration with local partners.
“This model allows providers to build trust over time while addressing immediate healthcare needs in a practical and accessible way,” said nurse practitioner and mobile medical team member Justin Styles. “We see mobile healthcare as an important part of strengthening community health systems for people who are too often left without consistent care.”
White Bird says the partnership with Community Supported Shelters reflects growing recognition throughout Lane County of the need for low-barrier healthcare services that meet people where they are. White Bird leaders say the initiative also helps address widening service gaps following the closing of Lane County’s former mobile medical outreach program.
Anna Alkin, Community Supported Shelters Programs Manager, said, “Bringing medical care to the Access Center – where our unhoused clients come to pick up mail, take a shower, play the guitar, or receive employment support – is literally a lifesaving service. For a population that has too often suffered medical trauma, White Bird medical team’s warmth and mad people skills are as important as the medical care they provide. Words cannot express how grateful we at CSS are for this partnership.”
White Bird Clinic plans to continue expanding integrated mobile healthcare services in collaboration with shelters, outreach programs, and community organizations throughout Lane County. Future phases of the initiative will incorporate additional behavioral health, substance use, and care coordination services to support more comprehensive community-based care.