HAFCI - Our Results

HAIGHT ASHBURY FREE CLINICS
40 Years of Compelling Experience

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics has been providing the highest quality healthcare services to San Francisco residents for the past 40 years. Since our inception, HAFCI has been a pioneer in the field of addiction medicine. We are world renowned for our Integrated Care Model of combining primary medical care, substance abuse treatment, mental health counseling, and intensive case management into a single treatment regime. This model is the key to our high success rates with multi-diagnosed individuals who make up the majority of clients in our programs.

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics’ renaissance brings new leadership for the future. The Clinic's new Chief Executive Officer, John Eckstrom, has put in place a new executive team, strengthened financial controls, restructured the board of directors, defined the vision of our Integrated Care Model, and is creating an enhanced delivery model for providing services to our clients.

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics has the physical capacity to meet the needs of our clients and has room for further expansion. In addition to our existing 15 facilities throughout San Francisco, we have recently leased 23,000 square feet of treatment and clinic space to establish our Integrated Care Center in the heart of San Francisco - 1735 Mission Street at 13th Street. Our new facility is centrally located on the border of the Mission and SoMa neighborhoods and is just steps away from Van Ness and Market (the hub of public transportation). Our Integrated Care Center will now be available within easy walking distance of Civic Center, Western Addition, Potrero Hill, Tenderloin, SoMa, and the Mission. This facility will be complete with six medical exam rooms, four group meeting rooms, over 20 individual counseling rooms, and 12 social-model detox beds.

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics has the organizational capacity to serve large numbers of individuals. In 2004, we provided over 170,000 patient visits to over 62,000 unduplicated clients with the vast majority served by our substance abuse programs. We have over 200 paid staff and over 500 volunteers, making us one of San Francisco’s largest non-profit service providers.

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics experts lead the community healthcare field. From our addiction medicine certified doctors, to our frontline peer counseling staff, Haight Ashbury Free Clinics has the most complete and integrated in-house expertise offering culturally competent, medical and social-model substance abuse treatment and healthcare. Our expert staff is frequently called upon by local and national news media to comment on substance abuse news items (recent radio and TV interviews have included, homeless, methamphetamine, youth, HIV, HEP-C, aging, and inhalant issues). Many of our staff members are frequently called upon to speak at national conferences and represent HAFCI on local, state, and national programs, commissions, and organizations.

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics pioneered the Integrated Care Model. This model provides for more effective service delivery for clients and thus enables our “any door is the right door” policy. Our Integrated Care Model includes primary care, substance abuse treatment services, mental health services, and case management including resource referral to supportive social services such as housing, food, clothing, and employment. At our 1735 Mission Street location, we will take the Integrated Care Model delivery system one step further by providing all of these services under one roof.

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics was built on providing culturally competent services. Our staff and services match the diverse San Francisco population to meet the specific and unique needs of our clients. We currently offer services in multiple languages and we treat individuals from all walks of life including multi-diagnosed individuals, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals of diverse gender and sexual orientation, and individuals with specific or poly-drug addiction.

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics is both neighborhood-based and city-wide. With 15 facilities from Golden Gate Park to Treasure Island, we focus our resources where the needs are. For example, we have provided services in the Tenderloin for over 16 years. Our unique Oshun program (at the corner of Turk and Taylor) is the only program in San Francisco that specifically serves homeless and indigent women and their children, offering drop-in services and case management.

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics has extensive substance abuse treatment experience. Our comprehensive treatment model utilizes ASAM accredited physicians and psychiatrists. For decades we have provided our services under contract to the City and County of San Francisco through the Department of Public Health's Community Behavioral Health Services, Jail Health Services, and AIDS departments.

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics prides itself on brining high-quality, integrated, medically-based, culturally competent, substance abuse services to San Franciscan’s in need.