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Our Management Team
FY2012 was another productive year at MobileMed! Our mission to improve the health of low-income people who face the greatest care access barriers remains unchanged after 44 years. Our goal of health care access for all and our commitment to provide quality services with compassion, cultural sensitivity, and respect continue as our highest priorities.
President’s Message
The Board and Management worked together this year to define a strategic roadmap to guide our future actions and decisions in the changing health care environment. We assessed the expected impact health care reform could have on our patients and ways we could assure that our organization’s mission and values continue. We prioritized expansion of our Medicaid participation, reaffirmed our commitment to collaborative community partnerships, and remain dedicated to enriched patient-centered care models focused on health improvement in our community.
A new initiative that the Board and Management decided to explore is the possibility of becoming a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Many of the requirements for being a FQHC align with MobileMed’s mission, values, and goals including operational excellence and integrity. We were awarded a HRSA grant to assist us with FQHC planning. This funding provided us with the opportunity to engage external resources for a community assessment and to outline organizational changes that would be required before taking next steps. The community assessment also is providing us with an excellent opportunity to hear from our patients and others community members to learn more about their health care priorities and how MobileMed may further address their unique needs.
Our Board expanded its fundraising efforts and had a busy year hosting, attending, and supporting various MobileMed events and community outreach activities. Our spring event, Laugh Riot for MobileMed held at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda, was a great success. We appreciate the contribution from the Hyatt and sponsors of this fun-filled evening. A musical event at Woodmont Country Club was organized by various Board and Fundraising Committee members to honor Dr. George Cohen. He received well-deserved accolades from Montgomery County officials and others to honor him as a co-founder of MobileMed and for all his years of community service. We were also delighted to enjoy Dr. Cohen’s musical talents as a flutist in duets at a musical benefit organized by a young volunteer and her family and at our annual Volunteer Recognition event. We are grateful for the many contributions from Board members, sponsors, staff, and friends in the community to help us continue to raise needed funds in this tough economic environment.
A special thanks to each MobileMed staff and volunteer for this year’s continued growth and for ensuring the mission, goals, and commitment to our patients stay at the forefront of all we do! We offer heartfelt thanks to our many Community Partners, Government Funders, Foundations, Businesses and Individuals, for their support. Your generosity allows us to provide accessible, high-quality care in our community both now and in the future. Together we make a difference!
Charlotte A. Jenkins, President Board of Directors
Board Of Directors
Charlotte A. Jenkins, MBA - President
Connie Lierman, CRNP - Vice President
Jean Lanham - Secretary
Alan Hoffman - Treasurer
Linda M. Plummer - Member-at-Large
Helen E. Blumen, MD, MBA - Member-at-Large
Hon. David Davidson - Parliamentarian
Sheldon Grosberg - Past President
Rhoda Abrams, MBA
Simon Atlas
Helen E. Blumen, MD, MBA
Catherine Cleland, MBA
Lola Jean Cross, MPH, RN
Sharon Kay Dooley
Jerome E. Herbers, Jr., MD, MBA
Thelma Meyer, MSW
Rex Reed
Michael Rosnick
Anita Solomon, PhD, ABPP
Honorary Board:
George Cohen, MD
Pat Baptiste
Dolores Farr, RN
Benjamin C. Fassberg, Esq.
John (Jack) Fitzgerald, Jr.
Hon. Esther Gelman
Sara N. Harris, OT
Hugh F. Hill, III, MD, JD
Kenneth Howard
Marion Hayes Hull, PhD
Cynthia A. Meyersburg, MS
John Moscato
Hon. Helen Strang
Andrew Weiss
VP, Strategy at National Council on Aging
Director, Business Development at NYU Medical Center
Corp Director, Business Development at MedStar Health
Our Staff - Paid and Volunteer
Charlotte Jenkins, President
The culturally diverse staff at MobileMed are smart, creative and committed to excellence. Thirty-five full-time and part-time paid employees, together with 200 volunteers – including doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, registered nurses and medical assistants – deliver MobileMed’s outstanding services. They come from many countries around the world and are conversant in multiple languages including Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean, Farsi and Amharic.
In addition to providing much needed healthcare services, the staff produces multilingual education materials, maintains a centralized credentialing system that ensures that healthcare providers’ credentials, education and training are up to date, and implements strategies for improving patent care and patient experience. MobileMed participates in ongoing peer review to ensure compliance with policy and best practices.
Founded by volunteers, MobileMed values its rich tradition of volunteerism. In addition to treating patients, volunteers serve as clinic registrars, participate in oversight and planning committees, provide financial support and assist in all areas of the agency’s operations. MobileMed staff, both paid and volunteer, work together to provide the best healthcare possible to MobileMed’s patients. All staff, paid and volunteer alike, participate in ongoing cultural competency training using a variety of resources including the Cultural Competency Manual developed by senior MobileMed staff. The handbook, and the training, continues to be a useful tool in MobileMed’s efforts to ensure that its services are delivered in a culturally competent manner.
