With that goal come the opportunity to enhance the community's economic standing. REAL began as a small information and referral system and developed into a conglomerate of coordinated services. The services provided include housing for the elderly and disabled, adult day care centers, rural public and medical transportation, home health, and primary home care in the seven county area. Current Service Delivery Routes run on a demand responsive mode with service into Agua Dulce, Banquete, Robstown, and Corpus Christi. They contracts with adult day care centers, clinics, Texas Department of Health, Warm Springs Rehab, Alice Public Library, and the Coastal Plains Mental Health Mental Retardation.
Coordination creates the support that helps keep all systems operational and cost effective.
Innovations and Highlights One of the most important aspects of this system is the transportation service provided to kidney dialysis patients. Some patients live 60 to 70 miles from the dialysis center. If it were not for public transportation, many of the dialysis patients would be forced to move out of their homes into assisted living facilities. One Way Trips Total Fed. Operating Rev Spent Total State.