Mobile Care Chicago Names Matt Siemer as New Executive Director
Mobile Care Chicago has named Matt Siemer, most recently Mobile Care’s Director of Operations, to the position of Executive Director. The transition is part of a larger strategy to deepen the organization’s commitment to managing chronic diseases in children, both through innovations in Mobile Care’s current Asthma and Dental programs as well as through new collaborations within Chicago’s changing healthcare landscape.
“Unmanaged chronic diseases are among the top drivers of skyrocketing healthcare costs in Chicago,” says Board Chair Jonathan Weatherly. “For years Mobile Care’s Asthma and Dental Vans have demonstrated that when given access to the same specialty care as their higher income peers, children from underserved neighborhoods thrive and the whole city of Chicago benefits from their greater activity, alertness, and lack of time spent in Emergency Departments. Yet we’re seeing that for many children it’s harder than ever to access urgently needed quality care. We must do more, and no one understands how to drive our mission forward better than Matt.”
“It’s been an honor to work alongside such a dedicated and passionate staff, not to mention a Board that each year thinks strategically and deeply about our mission and growth,” says Matt Siemer. “We’re all committed to meeting the needs of our patients and reaching a greater number of kids currently unable to receive adequate health care. No child with a chronic condition should be without medical care, and I’m excited to continue Mobile Care’s remarkable success reaching those kids.”
Mobile Care’s Asthma Vans and Dental Vans currently provide initial screenings to over 20,000 children annually, and adopted the on-going specialty care of 2,000 children with chronic conditions last year. During its 17 year history, Mobile Care’s clinics have consistently cut ER use and hospitalization for its patients to near zero while asthma and dental carries have remained the top causes of preventable Emergency Department utilization in Cook County.
Matt Siemer has been with Mobile Care for nearly five years, serving the last four as Director of Operations. During that time, in addition to managing operations and fundraising, he shepherded the Board through the organization’s current Strategic Plan and implemented the launch of both the Mobile Dental Program and the Children’s Health Van through a landmark partnership with Presence Health.
