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| FIT Clinic helps inmates find quality health care |
| By news.tulane.edu- Faith Dawson |
| Published: 10/12/2016 |
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People who serve prison sentences, even if previously in good health, tend to leave correctional facilities with chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, hepatitis and cancer. Now, the FIT Clinic, based in New Orleans, is the only one in the Southeast to provide care and services specifically for former inmates. The clinic opened in June 2015 in the Ruth U. Fertel / Tulane Community Health Clinic to give formerly incarcerated people access to primary care; insurance, medication, and government benefits support; and other services, all on the sliding-fee scale of the federally qualified health clinic. Dr. Anjali Niyogi, who is also a hospitalist at University Medical Center (UMC) and an assistant professor in the Tulane School of Medicine, directs the clinic with help from doctors, residents and medical students who already practice or train there. Read More. |
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