A Safety-net hospital, or safety net hospital, provides care to people who do not have health insurance, low-income people, or undocumented immigrants.
One of these hospital networks is America's Essential Hospitals, an organization that began its work in 1981, and whose purpose is to provide quality medical care for people who face social or economic barriers to access health services. In this way, the hospitals that are part of this network provide care to patients regardless of their immigration status or insurance status.
The Essential Hospitals network has more than 300 hospitals in 39 states. You can find all the hospitals on the map of the following link: https://essentialhospitals.org/about/listing-of-americas-essential-hospitals-members-2/. Only in California, one of the states with the largest number of immigrants, has about 40 hospitals belonging to this network.
“Essential hospitals' mission and diverse workforce uniquely position them to provide culturally competent care. Nearly half of the patients in essential hospitals are racial and ethnic minorities, and many are immigrants,” he explains on his website.
In this sense, Essential Hospitals recognizes that the situation of federal immigration laws can generate certain concerns among medical service providers and patients themselves. In this way, the organization has compiled a series of resources to keep the establishments that are part of the network informed about the rights of patients and providers. You can check them at this link: https://essentialhospitals.org/immigration-health-care-resources-essential-hospitals/
On the other hand, America's Essential Hospitals is an organization that has championed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. They even sent a comment to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), where they asked the Biden administration to do everything possible to continue with DACA.
