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Dozen: Dr. Hauck Created a Model for Serving Area's Refugees [dailyprogress.com]

 

By Katherine Knott, The Daily Progress, January 2, 2020

Dr. Fern Hauck was nervous when she moved to Charlottesville more than 20 years ago to take a position at the University of Virginia Medical Center.

She worried that the area wouldn’t be as diverse as she was used to — but then she found out about the International Rescue Committee’s local refugee resettlement program.

Hauck, a family medicine doctor, wanted to provide refugees and immigrants in the area with a medical home, and in 2002, she opened the International Family Medicine Clinic, which has become a model in providing health care to refugees and has served thousands of patients.

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