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MTM is excited to announce a new collaboration with Jenks Park Pediatrics and Tufts Health Plan in Rhode Island aimed at eliminating transportation as a barrier to care. Find out how we’re supporting this important community initiative by providing daily transportation to the Jenks Park Pediatrics office for the practice’s patients.
MTM takes the health and safety of our teammates and visitors seriously. To prevent the spread of COVID-19 and ensure our employees and visitors remain healthy, we have adopted strict COVID-19 protocol at our headquarters.
Focused on protecting the health of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, MTM recently collaborated with the Community Provider Network of Rhode Island (CPNRI) to connect the populations they serve to COVID-19 vaccination clinics. Find out more about our partnership with CPNRI, and hear from their Executive Director Tina Spears how we’ve helped to manage the transportation process.
As communities nationwide begin offering the COVID vaccine to more widespread populations, many members of the transportation disadvantaged community don’t have a way to get to their vaccination appointments. Recently, we were proud to partner with Home State Health and other St. Louis area organizations to offer transportation to residents who qualify for the United Immunity-STL COVID vaccine clinics. Learn how we assisted in the coordinated effort!
In 2020, NEMT providers experienced an unprecedented drop in trip volume due to the effects of COVID-19. To help the providers we work with stay in business, we’ve found new ways to use NEMT fleets creatively, while also helping our health plan partners address Social Determinants of Health. MTM’s own Tamara Carlton recently wrote a piece for NEMTAC’s NEMT Today Winter 2021 issue highlighting how we’ve found additional work for NEMT providers while rewarding them for their passion and dedication throughout the pandemic. Check it out here!
As communities across the nation begin their widespread COVID-19 vaccination efforts, access to reliable transportation to and from vaccination sites is a growing concern. We’re proud to announce that the MTM Transit team in Sarasota, Florida was recently designated as a local COVID-19 vaccination transportation provider and is joining the effort to help improve vaccine access!
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way transportation providers operate, with many stepping up to the plate to become MTM Community Heroes. Rhode Island’s J&E Services is a shining example of a provider who volunteered to transport COVID-positive members to their life-sustaining medical appointments. Learn more about owners John and Eunice Kola-Idowu and what inspires them to care for others!
MTM’s Community Outreach team is a dedicated resource that helps our medical facility partners coordinate transportation. While this typically involves in-person visits to facilities nationwide, during the pandemic we’ve had to get creative. Find out what our Community Outreach Trainers are doing to ensure medical facilities nationwide have the resources they need to support their patients!
COVID-19 has left many families in the St. Louis region hard hit by food insecurity. MTM recently donated $5,000 to the Little Bit Foundation’s Feeding Hope Program, which will help feed 20 families of four in the St. Louis region for one month!
During this unprecedented time, the health and safety of MTM Transit staff and passengers, as well as the communities we serve, continues to be our number one priority. Read more about the enhanced safety measures and operational changes MTM Transit has implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
