CatalystHealthcare shouldn’t depend on your zip code.
Mobile clinics. Telehealth kiosks. Community health workers knocking on doors insurance companies forgot existed. This is what access looks like.
Patients served
A ninety-minute drive for a pediatric appointment.
Maria drives her three children past four county lines every time one of them needs to see a doctor. The nearest pediatrician to her parish closed in 2019. The nearest ER is forty-three miles away on roads that flood in spring.
Maria’s story is not exceptional. It is the rule for 2.3 million people living in healthcare deserts across rural Louisiana — communities where the ratio of patients to primary care physicians exceeds 3,500:1, where the nearest hospital closed before their children were born.
This is not a resource problem. It is a distribution problem. And distribution problems have solutions.
“We don’t lack the will. We lack the infrastructure.”
— Dr. Renata Okafor, Public Health Director, Concordia Parish
Healthcare Desert Index
% of residents with primary care access
Source: HRSA Healthcare Shortage Area data, 2025. Red indicates critical shortage (<15% access).
Each program a seed.
Each seed, a forest.
Three complementary programs designed to reach patients at every layer of isolation — geographic, technological, and social. Not a pilot. Not a study. A permanent infrastructure.
Mobile Clinics
The clinic comes to you.
Fully-equipped medical vehicles staffed by nurse practitioners and community health workers. Rolling into rural parishes on weekly schedules, serving patients who haven't seen a doctor in years.
Growth trajectory
Telehealth Kiosks
A doctor in every town square.
Private, broadband-connected kiosks installed in food banks, churches, and community centers — turning everyday gathering places into points of care.
Growth trajectory
Community Health Workers
Trust, built door by door.
Trained community members — neighbors, not strangers — knocking on the doors that formal healthcare systems have never reached. Navigation, follow-up, and advocacy bundled into one person who actually lives there.
Growth trajectory
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We work with public health departments, community orgs, and anchor institutions.
Numbers that grew in the ground.
Six years of planting. Measured, verified, and still growing.
Voices from the field
“Catalyst didn't just fund a report. They built the infrastructure we'd been trying to get for a decade. Three mobile clinics serving 800 patients a month in parishes that hadn't had a primary care provider since 2014.”
“I've been doing community organizing for twenty years. The difference with Catalyst is their workers already know which neighbors need help first — because they're from here. That trust isn't something you can import.”
“We've funded health access work in twelve states. Catalyst is the first grantee where our site visits feel like interrupting something — like we arrived in the middle of something alive. The results match the feeling.”
One day. Every person who can change this. In the same room.
Funders, health workers, and community leaders — gathered not to present, but to build. The annual Catalyst Summit is where the next year of work gets shaped.
Reserve Your Seat at the Summit
Seats are limited. Registration closes September 1, 2026.
What to expect
Who’s already registered
90 of 200 seats reserved — including program officers from 12 foundations and public health directors from 8 parishes.
Can’t attend?
Join the Catalyst Field Network — quarterly dispatches from the parishes, first access to future events, and an invitation to our annual impact call.