Our Mission

La Casita de la Salud is a student-run clinic focused on meeting the needs of the uninsured and undocumented adult populations of East Harlem.  Our goal is to improve health outcomes by providing quality culturally competent care regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, or ability to pay.  We emphasize preventative medicine through patient-centered care and education.  With the aid of quality indicators, we strive to be a model of efficiency and cost-effectiveness in the achievement of the aforementioned goals.  Through our organization’s cultural competency and increasing of access to healthcare for uninsured and undocumented residents, we hope to help bridge the pervasive health disparity gap in our healthcare system.

Dedicated to our community

Few can dispute the claim that health care in the United States has undergone changes in the last few decades that can best be described as a revolution. Many of these changes, like advances in biomedical science and the lightning-fast technology to which we are all accustomed, are recasting the mold of health care — generally for the better. Others, like soaring costs and foundering hospitals, are forcing providers to make compromises in order to continue treating an increasing number of patients without the means to pay.

La Casita de la Salud, which means “The Little House of Health,” seeks to help.