Our Story
Bringing Healthcare Within Reach.
Vamps on Wheels was founded on the belief that quality specimen collection services should be accessible, convenient, and compassionate — for everyone.
Our Story
About Vamps on Wheels
Vamps on Wheels LLC is a Mississippi-based mobile diagnostic support company providing professional, patient-centered specimen collection services throughout Central Mississippi. By bringing collection services directly to patients, healthcare providers, facilities, employers, and organizations, we help reduce barriers associated with transportation, long wait times, limited mobility, and inconvenient collection hours.
Founded by nationally certified phlebotomist Shekika Poole, Vamps on Wheels was created from the belief that access to professional specimen collection should be convenient, reliable, and compassionate. From individual patients to healthcare organizations, every service is delivered with a commitment to professionalism, accuracy, privacy, and quality patient care.
Our Mission
To provide convenient, professional, and compassionate mobile diagnostic support and specimen collection services while maintaining high standards of quality, accuracy, privacy, and patient-centered care.
Our Vision
To become a leading mobile diagnostic support company in Mississippi, recognized for expanding access to professional specimen collection services and building trusted partnerships with patients, healthcare providers, employers, and organizations.
What We Stand For
Our Core Values
Compassion
We treat every client with kindness, patience, and genuine care — especially those who may be anxious, elderly, medically complex, or in need of additional support.
Professionalism
We uphold high standards of professionalism, clinical practice, appearance, communication, and conduct in every interaction.
Integrity
We are honest, transparent, and ethical in everything we do — from scheduling and communication to specimen collection and handling.
Accuracy
We prioritize proper collection techniques, accurate labeling, specimen integrity, and appropriate chain-of-custody procedures to support accurate and reliable laboratory testing.
Reliability
Our clients and partners can count on us to arrive prepared, communicate clearly, and provide dependable service with professionalism and care.
Patient First
We keep the needs, comfort, dignity, and overall experience of the people we serve at the center of every interaction.
Innovation
We continuously seek better ways to serve our clients, support our partners, and expand access to convenient diagnostic support services.
Our Founder
Meet the Founder & CEO
Shekika Poole
Founder & CEO | Nationally Certified Phlebotomist
Shekika Poole is the Founder and CEO of Vamps on Wheels LLC and a nationally certified phlebotomist with hands-on experience across hospital, pediatric, behavioral health, paramedical, and mobile collection settings. Her professional background includes routine and specialty phlebotomy, specimen collection and handling, DNA collections, drug-testing collections, paramedical examinations, and patient care.
Shekika founded Vamps on Wheels after recognizing the need for more accessible and convenient specimen collection options for patients and healthcare organizations throughout Mississippi. Her vision was to bring professional collection services directly to the people and providers who need them while reducing barriers related to transportation, mobility, scheduling, and traditional collection-site wait times.
Today, she continues to lead Vamps on Wheels through hands-on patient care, provider relationship development, and the continued expansion of the company's mobile diagnostic support services.