Cell clinic to journey to St. Louis amid CareSTL troubles

A Springfield, Missouri-based well being heart is touring to St. Louis this week to handle what it calls a current lack of entry to care within the metropolis.

Workers at Jordan Valley Health, which operates 10 cellular models all through the area, will deliver one to the Bayer YMCA close to the intersection of Page and Union boulevards.

Patients will have the ability to obtain major and pediatric care from well being suppliers from 10 a.m. to three p.m. Thursday.

The summer time season and a supply of two new cellular models created a chance to journey to St. Louis, mentioned Jordan Valley President and CEO Matthew Stinson, a doctor who will workers the unit Thursday.

“This is a perfect opportunity and time for us where we don’t have our mobile units that are going out as often to schools,” Stinson mentioned. “We have the option of providing and putting a unit there on a regular, recurring basis.”

The clinic’s leaders are planning on sending the unit to St. Louis weekly, he said.

Jordan Valley Health is a federally qualified health center, which means it receives federal funding in exchange for treating people in medically underserved areas regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.

The mobile unit will post up near CareSTL Health, another federally qualified health clinic that recently lost its federal funding and has been closed off and on throughout 2026.

CareSTL announced it was reopening this week after it closed for more than a month and furloughed its staff earlier this summer. According to its Facebook page, the clinic is also hiring workers to staff its clinic on Dr. Martin Luther King Drive.

CareSTL’s executive director did not respond to requests for an interview.

Stinson said Jordan Valley and CareSTL had previously discussed working together, but the decision to come to St. Louis this summer was made without input from the St. Louis nonprofit.

“I had discussed with my board about [how] there’s this challenge that one of the FQHCs in St. Louis is facing,” he mentioned. “The question that the board asked … is if you are considering doing it prior to them closing, why aren’t you still considering it?”

Jordan Valley officers mentioned as for now, CareSTL’s reopening is just not affecting plans to function the cellular clinic in St. Louis.