60 Minutes: On the road with the Health Wagon

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On the road with the Health Wagon

It's not the first time Scott Pelley stepped foot on the beat-up Winnebago where the working poor of Appalachia get free health care

2014 Aug 17

This week, 60 Minutes boarded the Health Wagon, a mobile health clinic in a beat-up Winnebago. It's run by Teresa Gardner and Paula Meade, two nurse practitioners who navigate the hills and hollows of Appalachia, providing free medical care to the working poor.

But, as 60 Minutes Overtime discovered, this week's story isn't the first time Scott Pelley and 60 Minutes producer Henry Schuster stepped foot on the Health Wagon.

Six years ago, the team encountered that same Winnebago while reporting another 60 Minutes story called "Lifeline" about a charity that air drops weekend-long health clinics into remote, needy areas of the country.

"To see hundreds of people line up before dawn just because they have a chance to see a doctor about something that's probably been bedeviling them for years-- it's enormously moving," says Pelley.

For more information on the Health Wagon, visit their website or call 877-432-4466.

The Health Wagon featured on "60 Minutes" - here's how to donate

Posted: Sunday, August 17, 2014 2:30 pm | Updated: 1:24 am, Mon Aug 18, 2014.

Allie Robinson

Posted on Aug 17, 2014
by Allie Robinson Gibson

Tonight's "60 Minutes" segment on The Health Wagon, a free clinic for uninsured Southwest Virginians in the coalfield communities, has prompted several people to contact the Bristol Herald Courier asking how to donate.

The website for The Health Wagon is www.thehealthwagon.org. A toll-free number to call for donations is 1-877-432-4466.

The Health Wagon posted via Facebook that one way to offer donations is online at https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/thehealthwagon.

You can also contact The Health Wagon via phone during business hours at 276-328-8850 and an email address is [e-mail]. The group's address is Health Wagon, P.O. Box 7070, Wise, Va., 24293.

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