What is known about this topic?Free clinics provide free or reduced fee health care services to un-or under-insured individuals in the United States. Continuity of care can increase amount of preventive care and diabetes care and reduce hospitalization. In general, free clinic patients are highly satisfied with care provided at free clinics.
What the paper adds?Continuity of care should not only encompass seeing the same doctor over time, but also seeing well-coordinated providers. Cultural competence trainings in medical education may not wholly fit the socioeconomic and/or cultural realities of free clinic patients. More in-person communication would be beneficial to distribute the information about available resources for free clinic patients.
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