NYS Health Foundation Leads to Financially Sustainable Care Model For Resettled Refugees
Currently, 97 percent of refugees resettling in New York State are located upstate, particularly the greater Buffalo, Rochester, and Utica areas.
Although refugees come from different parts of the world, many share similar health-related challenges—including previous inadequate medical care, exposure to torture or terrorism, poverty, and language barriers—that make it difficult to access health care.
Over the past decade, this influx of newly resettled people in upstate New York has forced several nonprofit health care clinics to either shut their doors to new refugees or close down altogether because of the financial burden of treating these patients...