517 - Expanding Health Care Access for Undocumented Individuals

<p>Undocumented individuals often can’t or are afraid to seek health care due to a lack of insurance or fears that services could interfere with their immigration status. <strong>Luvia Quiñones</strong>, senior director of health policy at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and <strong>Mervin Dino</strong>, who runs a safety net health care program at Advocate Aurora Health in Chicago, talk with <strong>Dr. Josh Sharfstein</strong> about advocacy efforts to expand health care access to undocumented immigrants, how providers should consider making services more welcoming for this population, and how COVID-19 became a case study in the importance of extending care to all. </p>