Fresno BHC Alert

 

FRESNO BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES SECURES SHORT-TERM PROGRAM TO PROVIDE HEALTH CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED
 

Thank's to the hard work of community leaders, health advocates and residents, Fresno County Board of Supervisors agreed to provide care to undocumented Fresnans through a limited, short-term specialty care program, in a 3 - 2 vote, with Supervisors Borgeas and Poochigian voting no.

  

For more than a year, Fresno Building healthy Communities leaders and health advocates have been leading the effort to save Fresno's health care safety net to ensure the #Health4AllFresnans.

 

In November 2014, Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted to remove eligibility for MISP for undocumented Fresnans effective December 1, 2014. Since then, undocumented Fresnans lost the only source of disease management care forcing patients to rely on emergency rooms.


 

Fresno Building Healthy Communities, in partnership with Assemblymember Henry T. Perea helped secure $5.5 million in budget flexibility to provide short-term specialty health care to Fresno County's undocumented, which the Board voted to accept.


 

Today, the Board approved an agreement between the county, local community clinics like Clinica Sierra Vista, and our local hospitals like Community Regional Medical Center, which will provide limited specialty health care to undocumented Fresnans beginning April 20, 2015 through April 19, 2016, or until funds are depleted.


 

 
WHAT'S NEXT?

 

The work continues. We realize that this is just a band-aid for a much larger problem. Fresno County should work with our local non-profit hospital system toward a long-term solution and provide specialty and disease-management care to all Fresnans, regardless of immigration status. And, we need leaders like you to speak up for #Health4AllFresnans

  

Become a Fresno Building Healthy Communities leader! Contact California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation  for more information at (559) 486-6278.

 

 

 

 

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Augie Blancas

Communications Specialist 

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ablancas@fresnobhc.org 

 

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