Design of and outcomes in a student-run free mental health clinic serving the uninsured in East HarlemHEDISPsychiatryStudent-run free clinicImmigrantsPatient outcomesSRFCs can provide quality care to vulnerable patients that leads to clinically meaningful reductions in psychiatric symptoms and is well-...
In the winter of 1998, the first of many Mexican families arrived at one of New York City's Health and Hospitals Corporation clinics in East Harlem. This paper traces the author's 10-year experience of addressing and serving this unique community as director of this clinic. Finding a most ...
Pediatric mental health services in minority urban low-resource communities are often in high demand and in inadequate supply. East Harlem, New York City is a neighborhood with similar circumstances. As of the 2010, 18.3 % or approximately 27,000 of its 120,000 residents are below the age of...
As Mexicans came to represent nearly one-third of its patient population, the centre was rededicated and renamed (the clinic of the neighbourhood). It is now recognised by the State of New York Legislature as providing community-responsive healthcare for the people of East Harlem.The paper ...