The Canadian Centre for Refugee & Immigrant Health Care – Where Care Matters More Than A Card

Our Centre continues to provide a safe environment for patients to receive their primary medical and dental care.

Our Virtual Care and Triage Program manages patients needs through telephone and video care and in special circumstances provide in person care in a sterilized safe environment.

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2021 Q1 Update:

We encourage Scarborough residents to get vaccinated to ensure the health and safety of our community.

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COVID-19 UPDATE

Primary Care Update:

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From a handful of doctors and nurses treating patients in a borrowed church basement, our Centre provides medical, dental mental health and dietary care to thousands of refugees, immigrants and other newcomers to Canada. At the same time we have grown to be a nationally recognized authority on the healthcare and well-being of newcomers to Canada.

Our History

Our Inter-disciplinary team of over 70 doctors, dentists, nurses, and other health and social professionals have generously volunteered their time, skills and funds in an effort to ensure that every newcomer receives access in Canada to health care when they need it, without judgment for their immigration status or their ability to pay.

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Who are we?

Years

Doctors Within Borders

They are new to Canada, ineligible for insured services at times on their Canadian journey. They rely on the medical lifeline of CCRIHC’s free clinics as their only hope. Over 50,000 medical visits and counting. As the number of displaced migrants throughout the world rises dramatically we see it ripple through our clinics. We are always taking on a growing number of newcomers when they are ill and uninsured / underinsured. Healthcare plays a vital role in restoring their health, hopes, dignity, and resiliency for long-term success in Canada.

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500,000

Our clinics ease the pressure on Canada’s health care system. Keeping patients healthier in the community, reducing expensive hospital care is what we do every day.

$24.4 Million

Our Impact

Why We Exist?

An estimated

People are living, often working in Ontario but are denied OHIP

Saved for Canada's Health System