{"id":93674,"date":"2021-04-19T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-medical-clinic-serving-houstons-most-vulnerable-immigrant-population-denied-covid-19-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T22:30:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T02:30:19","slug":"niegan-vacuna-contra-la-covid-19-a-clinica-que-atiende-a-la-poblacion-de-inmigrantes-mas-vulnerables-de-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/niegan-vacuna-contra-la-covid-19-a-clinica-que-atiende-a-la-poblacion-de-inmigrantes-mas-vulnerables-de-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Clinic Serving Houston&#8217;s Most Vulnerable Immigrant Population Denied COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">HOUSTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 19, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Texas Health and Human Services recently informed Hillcroft Physicians, P.A. Clinic (Hillcroft) after five months of waiting doctors will not be given the COVID Vaccine to distribute to their needy immigrant population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five years ago, an investigation was launched by the Government into Hillcroft Physicians Clinic.\u00a0 At that time, the clinic was rapidly growing, providing medical services to\u00a0thousands\u00a0of newly arrived immigrant patients who relied on Medicaid for their families&#8217; vital medical services,&#8221; says <span class=\"xn-person\">Ali Fazel<\/span>, attorney for Dr. Farizani, Medical Director of Hillcroft\u00a0Physicians Clinic.\u00a0 &#8220;Hillcroft is unique in that it provides medical services to mainly refugees from war-torn countries.\u00a0\u00a0The staff speaks ten different languages providing healthcare services to a population from 30 plus countries.\u00a0\u00a0Some of these new Americans have limited experience with healthcare, and that often led to a misunderstanding of continuity of care and confusion as to who was treating their families regardless of the effort undertaken by Hillcroft staff to educate and explain the complex structure of American healthcare services.\u00a0This misunderstanding fueled the Governments&#8217; investigation into Hillcroft and may have caused the Texas Department of Health and Human Services to deny the COVID-19 vaccine distribution to Hillcroft patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For over twenty years Hillcroft Physicians have served over 200,000 patients through almost\u00a0700,000 office visits.\u00a0 There has never been a single action taken by the Texas Medical Board or lawsuit filed against any physician or provider who works at Hillcroft Physicians Clinic.\u00a0Hillcroft continues to keep its doors open to serve the patients they love so dearly.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Hillcroft Physicians Clinic:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hillcroft Physicians and Providers have been serving the Gulfton and surrounding <span class=\"xn-location\">South West Houston Community<\/span> for 24 years. Practitioners, along with the support team of assistants, translators, and educators work to comprehensively provide the best care possible to the medically underserved newly immigrated and refugee patients from over 30 countries.\u00a0 The largely immigrant population served by Hillcroft Physicians Clinic presents unique challenges that must be addressed during each visit and include culture, language, diet, mental status, and of course, physical health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3133675-1&amp;h=2537273817&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hillcroftphysicians.com%2F&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hillcroftphysicians.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.hillcroftphysicians.com<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  <span class=\"xn-person\">Fazel Law<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">HOUSTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 19, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Texas Health and Human Services recently informed Hillcroft Physicians, P.A. Clinic (Hillcroft) after five months of waiting doctors will not be given the COVID Vaccine to distribute to their needy immigrant population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five years ago, an investigation was launched by the Government into Hillcroft Physicians Clinic.\u00a0 At that time, the clinic was rapidly growing, providing medical services to\u00a0thousands\u00a0of newly arrived immigrant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}