The Caribbean-American Family Health Center
(CAFHC) provides comprehensive, high quality primary health
care services to medically underserved and at-risk population
living in central Brooklyn, and primarily to the residents
of Crown Heights, Flatbush and East Flatbush. These communities
have high concentrations of immigrants who face tremendous
obstacles in accessing and receiving appropriate health care
services. This is attributable to profound cultural and language
barriers, immigration status related obstacles, coupled with
differences in patterns of health care utilization. CAFHC
provides patient-focused, culturally competent health care
services, which include pediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics
and gynecology. The clinical services of CAFHC are based on
a life cycle model emphasizing health care for the entire
family.
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| Children receive healthcare through
CWHA's Primary Health Program. |
The CAFHC is a partnership that
combines the expertise and experience of Lutheran Medical
Center’s Sunset Park Family Health Center Network, one
of the largest and most successful federally-funded community
health centers in the nation, and Caribbean Women’s
Health Association, Inc., a widely respected community-based
organization providing an array of health education, immigration
and social services to a largely immigrant population. Both
organizations share a compatible vision of community well-being,
along with a commitment to provide patients with the highest
quality health care in a friendly, caring and professional
environment, which is knowledgeable and sensitive to the cultural
immigration status and linguistic dynamics of the community.