Health Collaborative
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Health Collaborative
The New York Immigration Coalition’s Immigrant Health Access and Advocacy Collaborative (Health Collaborative) brings together health advocates from the NYIC’s community-based member organizations (CBOs), legal assistance partners at the Community Development Project of Urban Justice Center and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and the NYIC in a nationally recognized project to improve immigrants’ access to health care and health insurance through community education, capacity building and leadership development of CBOs, and systemic advocacy.
Since 2001, the NYIC’s Health Collaborative has worked strategically to expand immigrants’ access to quality, affordable health care by determining and monitoring barriers to accessing health care, working with providers and policymakers to reform practices and policies, and building the capacity of community groups to assist their immigrant constituents to navigate the health care system.
The Health Collaborative reaches thousands of immigrant New Yorkers each year through community outreach and education as well as direct assistance to enable them to access health care and insurance. More specifically, the Health Collaborative seeks to ensure that immigrants understand and are able to exercise their rights to financial assistance and free communication assistance at all of New York’s public and private hospitals; that health care and enrollment workers improve their knowledge and performance to ensure that immigrants receive the care for which they are eligible; that the fear and confusion and misinformation that deter immigrants from seeking care are effectively addressed; and, ultimately, that immigrants are empowered to utilize cost-effective preventive, primary, and specialty care rather than delaying obtaining care until more costly emergency treatment is required.
2010-11 core members of the Health Collaborative include:
- Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN)
- Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York
- North Fork Spanish Apostolate
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South Asian Council for Social Services
Health Collaborative working group members include:
- New Immigrant Community Empowerment
- Project Hospitality
- Queens Community House
- Reconciliation and Culture Cooperative Network (RACCOON)
- Queens Independent Living Center
- Workers Center of Central New York
Learn More
- Immigrants and Health Reform: New York Bridge Plan (.pdf)
- The New York Immigration Coalition Update: Immigrants and Health Reform (.pdf)
- Health Insurance and Immigrants: Obstacles to Enrollment and Recommendations (.pdf)
- “Mutual Responsibility”: A Study of Uninsured Immigrants’ Perspectives on Health Insurance in New York City (.pdf)
- Seen But Not Served: The Need for Meaningful Access to Language Services for Limited English Profiecient Medicaid Beneficiaries at New York City Medicaid Offices (.pdf)
- Now We're Talking: A Study on Language Assistance Services at Ten New York city Public and Private Hospitals (.pdf)
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