Brooklyn Free Clinic
| Anne Kastor Brooklyn Free Clinic | |
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| Overview | |
| Medical Director | Kaiser Islam M.D. |
| Chief Operating Officer | Patrick Eucalitto |
| Chief Medical Officer | Timothy Ibrahim |
| Chief Administrative Officer | Ericka Boucard |
| Chief Development Officer | Christianna Sim |
| Service Model | Student-Run Free Clinic |
| Specialty | Primary Care |
| Affiliation | SUNY Downstate College of Medicine |
| Website | www.brooklynfreeclinic.org |
| Location | |
| City | New York City |
| Borough | Brooklyn |
| Neighborhood | East Flatbush |
The Anne Kastor Brooklyn Free Clinic (Brooklyn Free Clinic or BFC) is a student run free clinic located in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY. Nearly all the positions from front desk administration and clinical volunteers to Executive Board are staffed by students from the various colleges of SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
The Brooklyn Free Clinic is a student-run free clinic addressing health disparities in Brooklyn through service and education at SUNY Downstate. We envision that every patient has the resources they need to be healthy and every student becomes a socially conscious provider
The Brooklyn Free Clinic (BFC) was formed in 2006 by a group of medical students at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. Located in Central Brooklyn, an area whose surrounding neighborhoods have some of the highest rates of uninsurance in the City. The initial driving mission of the clinic was to serve these uninsured populations. After nearly two years of planning the clinic finally saw its first patients in 2008. One of the first volunteer attending physician was Dr. Anne Kastor, a primary care physician, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine faculty member and advocate for universal healthcare. So dedicated to the spirit of student run clinics, Dr. Kastor went on to become the Director of the Weil Cornell Community Clinic at Weil Cornell Medical College.
Initially located on Throop Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant, the clinic moved its clinical operations to Lefferts Avenue in East Flatbush in 2014 while also expanding to meet the needs of the community. In January 2017, the clinic moved to University Hospital Brooklyn to better serve the needs of the community. The clinic currently operates on Wednesday nights throughout the year with few exceptions. The clinic uniquely takes a multi-disciplinary approach to clinic nights and various community-based events.
Volunteers at the BFC are students from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, College of Health Related Professions, College of Nursing and School of Public Health. Volunteer attending physicians are mainly recruited from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Kings County Hospital Center and other surrounding hospitals including Lenox Hill Hospital and North Shore University Hospital among others. The clinic operates every Wednesday night throughout the year from 5 in the afternoon until the last patient is seen at around 10 at night.
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