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‘They’ve Gone Off the Map’: Fear Drives Immigrants Away From Clinics

NYC Care is launched today in the Bronx on Thursday, August 1, 2019. NYC Care is a health care access program that guarantees low-cost and no-cost services to New Yorkers who do not qualify for or cannot afford health insurance. Aug. 1, 2019.

In a quiet exam room at a clinic in Harlem, the absence of some patients speaks louder than any diagnosis.  For months now, Dr. Chanelle Diaz, a primary care physician with roots in immigrant health, has noticed a troubling pattern: her undocumented patients — some of whom once relied on safety-net programs like NYC Care […]

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