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Niagara Family Health Center is a multicultural Family Medicine Center
in the heart of downtown Buffalo. A diversity of ethnic groups
living in this West Side neighborhood are provided care at Niagara
FHC, including a large number of Latinos, a smaller Vietnamese
population and a variety of recent immigrants and refugees from
Africa and Asia (e.g., Cambodia, Thailand, Somalia). Residents
each see approximately 2,000 patient visits at the Niagara FHC
during their three years. Families are assigned to new residents
and followed in a continuity practice, allowing residents to see
a wide variety of patients. Approximately twenty-eight percent
of our visits are with children and adolescents; another twelve
percent are age 60 or over. While children are evenly male and
female, the overall practice is about two-thirds female. The resident
practice includes much prenatal care, and office-based procedures
(surgical, colposcopy, and endometrial biopsy). Family Medicine Inpatient Service (FMIS)
There are five board-certified attending family physicians, 6 residents, 4 nurse practitioners, and 4 nurses at the Niagara Family Health Center. Additional services include a visiting dermatologist, podiatrist, full time social worker, bilingual prenatal classes, and diabetes and asthma patient education classes. Our staff is friendly and mostly bilingual. Patients and staff feel right at home. Several faculty actively pursue ongoing community-based research. There are opportunities to participate in such research as desired. We have been recognized by the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Science as a Community Academic Practice, acknowledging our capabilities in training resident physicians to be family doctors.
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All information © 2005, UB Department of Family Medicine unless otherwise noted.