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To launch the New York Children’s Health Project (NYCHP) in 1987, Children’s Health Fund created the first medical office on wheels. The NYCHP “Blue Van” made regular rounds to the city’s shelters, ensuring access to health care by bringing care to homeless children. Today, NYCHP is among the nation’s largest providers of health care services to homeless children, offering an oasis of hope for New York’s neediest.

NYCHP’s fleet of mobile medical units follows a weekly schedule of stops at fourteen locations across the city. Young patients in homeless and domestic-violence shelters, drop-in centers and residential facilities for runaway street youth find a “medical home” in caring relationships with our skilled and sensitive medical professionals.

The South Bronx Health Center for Children and Families (SBHCCF) is a state-of-the-art medical facility and CHF’s first community-based health center in New York. It serves a community where there were few existing comprehensive health services before CHF’s facility was established in 1993 in partnership with Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. SBHCCF provides a medical home for underserved children and families in the South Bronx. With 12 exam rooms, two treatment rooms and a public meeting room, it is a thriving hub for health care and education in the community.

On September 29, 2008 the New York City Programs relocated its headquarters from Manhattan to 853 Longwood Avenue in the South Bronx. The relocation moves headquarters closer to the South Bronx Health Center for Children and Families, now just a few blocks away. The new space houses administration and program development for the NYC Programs, the hub site and full-time clinic for homeless patients of the New York Children’s Health Project, as well as the New York Center for Special Health Initiatives.

Available Services:

  • Comprehensive primary care, physical examinations and immunizations;
  • Management of acute and chronic illnesses;
  • Prenatal and women's health services and referrals;
  • Nutrition assessment & education, cholesterol screening and body weight monitoring;
  • Screenings for lead, cancer and vision and hearing testing;
  • HIV/STD testing, counseling and treatment;
  • Substance abuse prevention, assessment and referrals;
  • Community and social service referrals;
  • Mental health services; and
  • Access to specialty and inpatient care.

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