Sliding Scale and Free Clinics

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Information for Patients
Contact your healthcare provider by phone before coming to a clinic or hospital if you meet the following criteria:
Symptoms such as fever, cough or shortness of breath, fatigue, headache, muscle or body aches, loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose.
Contact with someone with confirmed COVID-19 within 14 days of onset of systems

This clinic operates under a SLIDING SCALE model. This means that it MAY NOT be free depending on your income. You will be required to prove financial need in order to receive free services or services at a reduced cost. This is a health care center funded by the federal government. This means even if you have no insurance you can be covered. The center is also income based for those making an income. This health center can cover services such as checkups, treatment, pregnancy care (where applicable), immunizations and child care (where applicable), prescription medicine and mental and substance abuse where applicable. Contact them at the number provided for full details. Briarwood Family Residence is a Community Health Center. Briarwood Family Residence is a Homeless Health Center. In order to get more information on this clinic, click on the icons below. You may be required to join for free in order to access full contact information.

About Briarwood Family Residence

Sliding Scale

Care for the Homeless serves between 8,000 and 10,000 men, women and children annually and provides comprehensive care at more than 30 sites including soup kitchens, SROs, shelters, drop-in centers and street outreach programs in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. Our service delivery model is to provide care where homeless individuals and families congregate, and by partnering with host locations such as shelters and soup kitchens, Care for the Homeless is able to keep administrative and real estate costs low and provide critical health care on teh front lines reaching those most in need.

Care for the Homeless fights homelessness by delivering high-quality and client-centered healthcare, human services and shelter to homeless individuals and families, and by advocating for policies to ameliorate, prevent and end homelessness.

Homeless people have a higher incidence than the general population for almost all health conditions, particularly hypertension, diabetes, HIV and sexually transmitted infections, and respiratory ailments, including asthma and bronchitis. Paramount to this increased incidence of health problems is the fact that the homeless lifestyle is typically characterized by factors outside the homeless person's control, such as where one lives, where one sleeps and what one eats. Additionally, homeless people cannot easily get health care and, because of their circumstances, health conditions are more difficult to treat.