HAVEN Free Clinic
Leah Effron is a Senior Clinical Team Member at HAVEN Free Clinic since September 2017, providing medical visits focused on contraception, menopause, STIs, and reproductive health for uninsured individuals in New Haven. Previous experience includes serving as a flu clinic nurse at Yale Health and working as a medical scribe at Tulane University Hospital and Clinic, where documentation of patient interactions and electronic medical records was enhanced. Leah's earlier roles encompass youth development coordination at VAYLA New Orleans, farm-based education, gardening initiatives, and research projects at esteemed institutions. Leah holds a Master of Science in Family Practice Nursing from Yale School of Nursing and a Bachelor of Arts in Community Health and Child Development from Tufts University.
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HAVEN Free Clinic
The HAVEN Free Clinic is a student-run primary care clinic that partners with Yale University to provide the New Haven community access to comprehensive, high-quality health care free of charge. Our model is unique because we include members across various disciplines in health care, including medicine, nursing, physician’s associate programs, and public health. We serve as a sustainable free clinic that provides uninsured adults in New Haven with primary care, wellness education, and assistance in securing health care while simultaneously educating health professional students at Yale about patient care and community health. HAVEN operates on Saturdays from 9am-12pm out of the Yale Physicians Building. Since opening our doors in November 2005, we have conducted over 4000 adult patient visits, representing more than 450 unique patients. Patients are seen by teams of senior and junior students with guidance from faculty preceptors. Currently, we see an average of 30 patients per week.