Community Pulse: RAM Brings Free Telehealth Clinics to Knoxville and Del Rio

Remote Area Medical is bringing free telehealth clinics to East Tennessee this week, including several stops in Knoxville and one in Del Rio.

RAM’s schedule lists free medical-only telehealth clinics at Care Cuts on Clinton Highway, the Sustainable Future Center in South Knoxville, Church Street United Methodist Church downtown, and a Del Rio location on Highway 107. Upcoming clinic times include Care Cuts on June 16 and June 19 from 10 a.m.–2 p.m., Sustainable Future Center on June 17 from 9 a.m.–1 p.m., Church Street United Methodist Church on June 18 from 10 a.m.–1 p.m., and Del Rio on June 18 from 1–4 p.m.

RAM’s telehealth model brings a mobile medical unit to a community site, where an onsite nurse and support staff help patients connect with remote volunteer physicians. The program focuses on free acute medical care and is designed to reduce barriers for people who may not otherwise have easy access to care.

The clinics are first-come, first-served. RAM says no insurance, ID, proof of income, citizenship, or residence is required for its free clinics. For telehealth visits, patients must be in Tennessee at the time of care and physically present at one of RAM’s pop-up telehealth sites.

For Knoxville-area residents, this is a practical health-access update. RAM is already familiar to many East Tennesseans through its large pop-up medical, dental, and vision clinics, but these smaller telehealth events give the organization another way to bring care closer to neighborhoods, churches, and community centers.