Public Health Services has a new mobile resource to help deliver health services and information directly to local communities.
The County’s latest Live Well on Wheels (Live WoW) bus made its debut this month and will soon hit the road. It expands the fleet of two existing Live WoWs and a recently added HIV, STD, and Hepatitis Live WoW bringing the total number to four mobile vehicles available for use.
The nearly 12-foot-long Winnebago Freightliner will serve as a rolling public health resource, expanding the County’s ability to meet people where they are and offer a wide variety of programs and services to individuals right in their own neighborhoods.
Live WoWs can be outfitted to meet the needs of the community. Common uses are for delivering outreach for public benefits, providing educational health information, and giving vaccinations.
The new Live WoW will have a special focus on public health. It can be used to test for communicable diseases, like Hepatitis A, dengue, and food-borne illness. It can support large-scale site investigations for tuberculosis and serve as the command-and-control vehicle for related testing.
The newest Live WoW also can be used for emergency public health preparedness response training and available for mobile support during natural or man-made disasters.
Since the first Live WoW debuted in July 2021, the mobile offices have supported over 1,400 community events across the region providing more than 117,000 service interactions, including almost 16,000 COVID-19, flu, and general vaccinations.
The County’s Live Well on Wheels mobile vehicles are dispatched by the County and made available to the community for events.
Information on how to request a LWoW bus is available online.
