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The Mayors Public Engagement Unit, the NYC Well being + Hospitals NYC Care program, BronxNet and the La Central YMCA are internet hosting a healthcare truthful for Bronx households on the La Central YMCA within the South Bronx on Saturday, April 1st. There was free entry to the YMCA’s gymnasium services. and lessons and academic workshops on matters corresponding to vitamin, diabetes prevention, and smoking cessation. Additionally included have been well being care enrollment and help, blood donation, COVID-19 testing and vaccinations, well being screenings (hepatitis B & C, blood stress, diabetes, HIV and extra) and details about neighborhood and state assets.
As well as, PEU public well being educators supplied data on well being plan choices, entry to enhanced monetary assist, enrollment, and the right way to get free enrollment help by means of GetCoveredNYC. Interpretation providers have been supplied by the Mayors’ Workplace of Immigration in Arabic, French, Igbo, Mixtec, Quechua/Kichwa, Spanish, Garifuna, and Wolof.
The occasion is a part of GetCoveredNYC and NYC Care’s broad, citywide outreach effort to enroll eligible New Yorkers in well being care and well being entry applications and encourage them to make appointments for main care.
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This system started with a talking program that includes Nadia Arroyo, Senior Director of YMCA La Central, GetCoveredNYC Public Engagement Specialists, Orville Berry and Tania Navaras, NYC Director of Neighborhood Affairs Care, Theresa Doherty, Sauti Yetu consultant, Tiguidanke Keita, BronxNet Government Director Michael Max Knobbe and American rapper, grandmaster Melle Mel. This system emphasised the significance of well-being and healthcare choices for the neighborhood, no matter earnings or paperwork.
Alexander Medina, director of outreach for GetCoveredNYC from the Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit, advised GetCoveredNYC that the staff implements outreach and case administration to attach underinsured communities to well being care of their neighborhoods and communicate to them of their languages. “Our specialists are constructing a world the place no New Yorker is left uncovered for lack of understanding or understanding, and occasions like this are key to that work,” he stated partly.
Her phrases have been echoed by Dr. Jonathan Jimnez, government director of NYC Care at NYC Well being + Hospitals, who stated the truthful was one other solution to exhibit his division’s dedication to connecting all New Yorkers to high-quality well being care. “Our neighborhood companions from the 5 boroughs shall be accessible to reply questions on NYC Care, which is on the market no matter immigration standing or means to pay,” she stated partly earlier than thanking all of the occasion companions.
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The BronxNet partnership included a pop-up station in the midst of the occasion with a dialog with Dr. Bob Lee. Lee presently hosts the weekly stay tv program Open, which airs on BronxNet TV, a public multimedia community. That includes information and matters affecting the Bronx neighborhood, the present additionally options new and established musical visitors.
BronxNet provided the neighborhood interactive VR health experiences on the expo with immersive media artist Will Robert of Creatives Rebuild NY, who teaches media artwork lessons and produces interactive content material at BronxNet. BronxNet additionally arrange a multimedia cellular studio for the neighborhood to host segments and take part in media making.
In response to a citywide blood emergency, the New York Blood Heart is internet hosting a blood drive by means of its cellular unit. This month there’s a $250 raffle for anybody who donates blood on the NY Blood Heart, and everybody who attended the occasion was entered as a winner.
Members have been additionally provided a lot of free well being providers and screenings on website. COVID-19 testing was provided by means of the Well being + Hospitals Check & Deal with cellular unit, and MetroPlus was on-site with a donation drive, face portray and balloon animals. Felicity Pharmacy provided COVID-19, flu and shingles pictures. NYC Well being + Hospitals/Lincoln supplied free blood stress screenings and different well being screening assets, and the Africa Service Committee supplied HIV and hepatitis B and C testing.
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The companions of the occasion have been:
- Acacia Community
- African Service Committee
- Arab-American Household Help Providers (AAFSC)
- Be a match
- Bridge builders
- Bronx Documentary Heart
- Bronx Works
- BronxNet
- Cornell College Cooperative Extension-NYC-EFNEP
- Vacation spot tomorrow
- H+H: Check & Deal with Corps
- Spanish Union
- Korea Neighborhood Providers (KCS) – Public Well being and Analysis Heart (PHRC)
- MetroPlus
- NY Blood Heart
- Psychotherapy and Counseling Heart of NY
- NYC Care
- NYC DOHMH – Environmental Well being/Poison Heart
- NYC DOHMH: Youngsters and Youth with Particular Well being Care Wants
- NYC DOHMH: Maternal, Toddler, and Reproductive Well being
- NYC DOHMH: Morrisania Neighborhood Well being Heart / Bronx Neighborhood Community
- NYC DOHMH: Workplace of Well being Insurance coverage Providers
- NYC Institute on Growing old
- NYC Division of Veterans Providers (DVS)
- NYC Division of Staff (DWCP)
- NYC Division of HRA – Workplace of Metropolis Well being Insurance coverage (OCHIA)
- NYC Well being + Hospitals / Lincoln
- NYC Mayor’s Workplace of Immigration Affairs (MOIA)
- NYC Small Enterprise Providers
- From the NYS Well being Market
- State Meeting Workplace, Member Amanda Septimo
- Deliberate Parenthood
- Pink de Pueblos
- Sauti Yetu Heart for African Ladies and Households
State Sen. Gustavo Rivera (SD 33), chairman of the New York Senate Well being Committee, stated of the occasion: “As we start this 12 months’s Nationwide Minority Well being Month, I’m grateful to the NYC Mayors Public Engagement Unit and its companions for internet hosting this well being truthful and connecting neighbors with quite a lot of bodily well being screenings and different instructional and authorities assets.He added that entry to high quality well being care suppliers for Bronxites, who’re predominantly folks of coloration, is central to the way forward for the Bronx communities we serve and to combating well being disparities in our state.
GetCoveredNYC provides free assist to New Yorkers who wish to enroll in well being care no matter immigration standing or earnings. Consultants communicate greater than 20 languages and deal with outreach to proactively determine uninsured New Yorkers and assist them entry well being care and different health-related advantages. For extra data, go to nyc.gov/GetCoveredNYC, name 311 and say Get Coated, or textual content CoveredNYC to 877877.
