RALEIGH, N.C. — The charitable wing of Advance Auto Parts is making a big donation to a Raleigh health provider in an effort to help keep communities healthy. 

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The Advance Auto Parts Foundation donated $80,000 to a Raleigh health provider 

The money will help with a mobile health unit and a patient prescription program 

This is the second such donation to Advance Community Health from the foundation 

Advance Community Health (ACH) recently received an $80,000 donation from the Advance Auto Parts Foundation. Scot McCray, the company's CEO, said these funds will go toward their patient prescription program and their new mobile health unit.

The medical clinic on wheels is a rolling doctor’s office, complete with a small waiting room inside the bus, a table, screening equipment and more. 

“We’ll be taking it out about six days out of a week,” McCray said.

President of the Advance Auto Parts Foundation, Elisabeth Eisleben said giving back to the community is one of their main goals.

“The opportunity to further engage with the local community here in the backyard of where our headquarters is located in Raleigh, to go out into the communities,” Eisleben said. 

The money from the funding will buy resources for the mobile health bus as well.

“That’s one of our core focus areas of the foundation, is improving health for everybody in our communities,” Eisleben said. 

McCray said the bus will also service as an educational vehicle.

“We want to get a lot of activity around Medicaid expansion, enrollment. We just won’t be doing health care. We’ll be doing a lot of education. We’ll be doing a lot of financial screening on here to make sure people have access to the care that they need,” McCray said.

The mobile health unit is already functional and has been in use for back-to-school events.

McCray said the mobile health clinic should be on wheels in surrounding communities by early fall or early October.