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In 1999, a handful of students at Einstein concerned about the health care crisis for uninsured Americans started the Einstein Community Health Outreach (ECHO) Free Clinic , New York's first student run free clinic. Today, over 300 Einstein students provide medical care, health education and social services to more than 500 uninsured people visits per year. We have also helped students at other medical schools launch free clinics of their own.
This is an exciting year for the ECHO free clinic. We have successfully transitioned to the electronic medical records system and are now taking on several new challenges. We have set as our goals to increase the number of physicians at every session and to expand ECHO's hours to include one Sunday a month so that we can accommodate more patients. To meet this goal we will have to recruit a significant new pool of Internists/Family Medicine physicians to augment our current group of volunteer attendings. We are also seeking to expand our community outreach through local health fairs and programs at community centers in the Bronx. We are striving to have a "Women's Health Day" one Saturday a month at the clinic where we specialize in women's health care procedures and health education. We need additional OB/GYN physicians to make this happen! The ECHO Clinic accomplishes all that it does thanks to generous grants, free and discounted services provided by local hospitals and medical establishments, the ongoing support of the Institute for Urban Family Health, and most importantly, our student and physician volunteers. We need you to get involved! |
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