Welcome to the Calgary Refugee Health Society

Providing health care services to newly arrived refugees in Calgary.

For over twenty years, we have been a cornerstone in providing comprehensive healthcare for refugees upon arrival to Canada — serving thousands of Calgary’s most vulnerable newcomers every year.

We work collaboratively as a team and with our community partners to ensure that newly arrived refugees have access to the healthcare services they need to thrive in their new community. We provide initial screening and assessments, health management and stabilization, and support patients to navigate to health services in the community. Following the management of immediate health needs and a period of stabilization, patients are transitioned from the clinic to a new medical home. All our work is done from a trauma-informed approach and builds on years of expertise, training, and lived-experience in refugee health.

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Clinic Activity (data from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026)

1,575

New Patients

26,257

Patients seen since 2011

9,406

Patient Appointments

Our patients are incredibly resilient, having drawn on personal and communal strength to escape danger and hardship — often leaving loved ones behind. Their stories reflect extraordinary courage, survival, and hope. Our patients arrive in Canada after experiencing war, persecution, displacement, prolonged stays in refugee camps, interrupted healthcare, food insecurity, and trauma.

As a result, they often have complex and interconnected health and social needs that require timely, coordinated, specialized care.