Damian Family Care Centers, Inc. is a not-for-profit primary medical health center & dental care services provider, striving to improve the health status of every patient regardless of ones ability to pay.
DFCCs was originally established as Samaritan Health Services, in 1996, by Samaritan Village, Inc. (SVI), and a large residential and outpatient drug treatment program. Recognizing the important linkage between primary care and populations in need of substance abuse treatment, SVI had previously incorporated primary care clinics at each of its residential drug treatment facilities.
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Services Offered
The following Mental Health Services are offered: * Pediatric Medicine * Adult Medicine * HIV Counseling * Mental Health
The DFCCs system performs approximately 56,000 patient encounters annually and has approximately 6,004 unduplicated users. Four of our six clinical sites (Starhill, Highbridge, 53rd Street and Ellenville) are co-located within residential drug treatment communities owned and operated by Samaritan Village, Inc. (SVI) and Palladia, Inc. These are two large not-for-profit agencies offering a wide-array of services to substance abusers with long histories of: * chemical dependency * incarceration * homelessness * HIV/AIDS * Hepatitis C (HCV) * mental illness * multiple chronic disease co-morbidity
The co-located 53rd Street Health Center is beginning to provide medical services to approximately 170 homeless males, and continues to provide care to 48 Mentally Ill Chemically Abusing (MICA) veterans in recovery who reside at the SVI 43rd Street Veterans Residential Drug Treatment Program. Our free-standing Damian Family Care Center (DFCC) is immediately adjacent to a large SVI residential drug treatment program whose clinical program focuses on individuals with Co-Occurring Disorders (COD's). In coordination with SVI, DFCCs is now providing care to returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who suffer from chemical dependency, mental illness and cognitive brain disorders induced by battlefield trauma.
Fees and Payment
This is non-profit organization.
Services Offered To: Adults
Special Groups: Bilingual
Payment: Sliding Scale Medicare Medicaid
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