Integrating emergency medicine-directed urgent care into a federally qualified health center: case report from a health professional shortage area
Gavriel Brody, Luke Blumenberg, Joshua Gildin · 2026
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Gavriel Brody and colleagues report an emergency-led urgent care unit built inside a community health center in Kiryas Joel, New York, serving a largely Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic population. Underserved areas lean on emergency rooms for minor problems when same-day care is missing. The unit offers long hours, holiday opening, and referral links shaped to the community it serves.
Visit volume climbed from 1,215 encounters in 2020 to 13,636 in 2025 in the reported counts, a rise the authors put at 1022.3 percent across the period. Cultural and language barriers that once suppressed care seeking were met by design rather than by posters alone. The growth itself makes the case: build urgent care that fits a community, and the community will come before crises do.
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| CREATOR | Gavriel Brody, Luke Blumenberg, Joshua Gildin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28166 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |