Healthcare services include primary care, community clinics, HIV and hepatitis C treatment, dental and vision care, and help enrolling in health insurance. NYC Health + Hospitals treats patients regardless of ability to pay or immigration status.
Tip: ask for your medical records and a list of your current medications before or right after release, so a new doctor can continue your care without a gap in prescriptions.
If a Bronx program has a waitlist, the citywide services below can often see you sooner, by phone or at an office in another borough.
11 services based in the Bronx, plus 57 citywide
Operates a mobile street outreach team in the Bronx 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, providing counseling, housing placement, medical services, benefits assistance, and substance use disorder treatment referrals to people experiencing homelessness.
Syringe exchange, drug testing kits, social work, showers, HIV/HCV testing, support groups, care coordination and advocacy.
Outpatient substance use and medication-assisted treatment across multiple Montefiore Wellness Center sites, with group and individual counseling, primary care, and medically supervised withdrawal services.
Harm reduction center and wellness center: healthcare linkage, health education, counseling, testing, condoms, PrEP/PEP linkage and insurance help.
Provides information, counseling, and support groups for anyone with questions about HIV or AIDS, plus rental assistance resources, case management, and LGBTQIA+-specific health and support services. Offers referrals and free HIV testing.
Composed of over 40 nursing homes and 2 assisted living facilities across New York State, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. Offers discharge planning for the chronically ill.
Bronx LGBTQ+ center with housing support, job training and HSE classes.
Provides services within secure and non-secure facilities, foster care agencies, and for homeless LGBTQ+ and underserved youth.
Provides comprehensive healthcare including primary and longterm care in areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics, cardiology, orthopedics, infectious diseases, radiology, specialty clinics, rheumatology, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord...
Federally qualified health centers in the Bronx and Queens.
These serve people from every borough, often by phone, online or at more than one office.
Offers free one-on-one help finding and using health insurance and care, including resolving medical billing and debt problems, disputing coverage denials, accessing hospital and prescription financial assistance programs, and understanding health insurance tax credit forms.
Helps New Yorkers and people traveling to New York State access abortion care through financial assistance, case management, and referrals to legal, counseling, and community resources. A volunteer case manager returns calls or emails within 48 hours, and information is kept confidential.
Helps income-eligible New Yorkers age 65 and over supplement out-of-pocket costs for their Medicare Part D prescription drug plan.
Connects soon-to-be-released and formerly incarcerated individuals to medical, mental health, and case management services, including substance use programs, plus vocational training, help obtaining entitlements, and referrals to long-term housing placement.
Publicly funded health coverage for low-income people; apply online or order an application kit.
Enrollment for state public health insurance: Medicaid, Child Health Plus, Essential Plan and other plans.
Connects pregnant people and families with doulas who provide non-medical support before, during, and after childbirth. The Citywide Doula Initiative offers free doula and home-visiting support to residents of neighborhoods most affected by COVID-19 and other health disparities.
Mobile medical units bring primary care, wound care, mental health support, and harm reduction services to homeless New Yorkers at 10 locations across the city. Services include basic health evaluations, screening and referral for substance use disorders, connection to medication-assisted treatment, and overdose prevention supplies like naloxone kits.
Confidential information on HIV/AIDS testing and service referrals; HASA supports benefits and housing for eligible people with HIV.
The federal health insurance program for people age 65 and over, providing information on enrollment, coverage, and costs by phone or online.
Low-cost and no-cost health care through NYC Health + Hospitals for people who do not qualify for or cannot afford insurance. No info shared with ICE.
Confidential city hotline that helps callers find an abortion provider in NYC, schedule appointments, get financial assistance, and arrange transportation or lodging. Identifying information is not collected and phone numbers are hidden.
