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Ambulatory Care Network Community Programs

Community Health Nursing - Faith Based Partnership Program

The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Ambulatory Care Network's Community Health Nursing - Faith Based Partnership Program partners with faith-based organizations to improve the health of members in these organizations and the community. This important undertaking provides a number of health care and health promotion services.

Mission and Goals

The Program aims to develop partnerships with faith-based and community-based organizations in Harlem that desire to improve the health of their members, neighbors, and community. Members of these groups expand the dialogue to members in other groups, therefore transforming and revitalizing the community's approaches to disease prevention and health promotion.

Outreach

Annual Day of Hope

This event provides much needed education and screening for the inner city's immigrant population. At the event, organizers provide medical referrals and information on insurance; local supermarkets provide healthy snacks and water; city officials provide information on socials services, parks and exercise, and fire safety. The event also has entertainment and music (in multiple languages), and dancing.

Mash Camps

New York Presbyterian, in collaboration with the Manhattan Staten Island Area Health Education Center (AHEC), provides approximately 10-12 preteens who are interested in the health field the opportunity to shadow department heads at the hospital for a day.

Referral Services

This program provides members of community-based organizations in Harlem with access to medical care. In addition, the program assists patients with making appointments, securing and understanding insurance, and understanding hospital fees.

Stress Management Fair

Acknowledging the stress level of police officers in Harlem, prominent naturopathic medicine doctor Robert Woodbine, along with massage therapists from the Swedish Institute and speakers from NewYork-Presbyterian provide information on stress management to officers at Harlem's 25th Precinct. Massages and packets on stress management are available to police officers.

Jefferson Houses Town Hall Meeting

Information on insurance eligibility and enrollment, and specialty medical services are offered at this monthly town hall meeting at the Jefferson Houses in Harlem.

East Harlem Arts Festival

East Harlem Arts Festival allows an opportunity for uninsured artists to display and sell their work and to learn about healthcare available in the community.

North Fork Bank (new name Capital One)

Provides blood pressure screenings and counseling to seniors. Primary care and specialty care information is also available.

Osteoporosis Screenings

Women's Voices for Change, with the help of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, provides free bone density exams for more than 500 women over age 45.