People We Serve:

Great Brook Valley Health Center serves people of all ages from diverse cultural backgrounds. In FY 07, approximately 24,000 people from over 100 Central Massachusetts and MetroWest cities and towns came to our health centers for over 120,000 visits. This includes over 3,000 people with more than 11,000 visits at Framingham Community Health Center. 53% of our patients are uninsured.

Our wonderfully diverse client population is primarily Hispanic (42%), Brazilian (27%), White non-Hispanic, African immigrant, African American, Albanian, Asian, Native American and Middle Eastern. Our Refugee Health Assessment Program is the most diverse program in Massachusetts, serving refugees from 23 countries in FY 06. Our newest refugee and asylee populations are from Somalia, Liberia, Burundi, Burma, Iraq, Uganda, Congo, Vietnam, Cuba, Cameroon, Haiti, Rwanda and Uzbekistan.

Nearly two-thirds of our clients do not speak English as a first language; 36% speak Spanish, 30% speak Portuguese, and others speak languages such as Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Burmese, Chinese, Farsi, French, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Haitian Creole, Italian, Korean, Urdu, Vietnamese, Hmong, Russian, and 22 African languages.