BROOKLYN, Northward.Y., Sept. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone in Dusk Park, Brooklyn, has been awarded a $24 1000000 federal grant through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to advance COVID-19 vaccination and education and aggrandize admission to high-quality comprehensive care in some of New York Metropolis's everyman-income neighborhoods.

The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, has been awarded a $24 million federal grant through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to advance COVID-19 vaccination and education and expand access to high-quality comprehensive care.

The Family Wellness Centers at NYU Langone in Dusk Park, Brooklyn, has been awarded a $24 million federal grant through the American Rescue Programme Act of 2021 to advance COVID-xix vaccination and educational activity and expand access to loftier-quality comprehensive care.

The 2-twelvemonth grant is part of a $350 billion relief package allocated to country and local governments to help individuals and businesses during the COVID-xix pandemic. The grant to the Family Health Centers is the second largest in New York Land, where 63 Federally Qualified Health Centers received funds to bolster community-based healthcare.

"Strengthening healthcare infrastructure in underserved communities through this visionary plan improves New York City'due south health condition overall," says Larry McReynolds, executive director of the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone. "This pregnant laurels recognizes the merit of each plan outlined in our grant proposal and enables u.s. to practise much more to brand a difference in thousands of lives."

The funding fortifies a range of programs at the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone, including the following:

  • COVID-19 education and vaccination: Increase community outreach, testing, and treatment.
  • Behavioral wellness staff and services expansion: Bolster an over-burdened network of mental health services and professionals by enhancing admission to behavioral health screening, telehealth, and in-person treatment; care coordination and crisis response; support efforts to reduce substance corruption and social stresses; and achieve more New Yorkers who lack housing.
  • Engineering science upgrades that bear upon community health: Strengthen technology infrastructure, including testing equipment for chronic weather condition exacerbated past COVID-19; broadband cyberspace; reckoner hardware; and phone call heart upgrades to better the FHC'south ability to efficiently appraise and directly patients to services.
  • Dental training and intendance: Resume the FHC dental education program, which was paused at the onset of COVID-xix; abound enrollment to aggrandize the pipeline of dentists who serve the surrounding community; and strengthen screening and oral health services for children and adults.
  • Pediatric and adult pulmonary programs: Enhance illness screening, handling, and prevention; and add new state-of-the-art pulmonary care equipment.
  • Social determinants of wellness: Expand community outreach programs through the FHC, like The Table nutrient pantry and emergency nutrient distribution; chore training; childcare; community health teaching programs; and vaccine access.
  • Augment access to chief care services: Increase COVID-19 related support using nurse practitioners and customs health workers to better manage care for high-risk patients with diabetes, hypertension, and other chronic atmospheric condition; and expand medical and behavioral health services to v boosted homeless shelters across New York City.
  • Support community-based partners: A portion of the grant dollars has been designated to back up local partners that provide medical and behavioral healthcare to historically underserved populations, including assistance at-take a chance youth, unhoused individuals, and members of the LGBTQ+ customs, amid others; and address social determinants of health.

"This grant recognizes that our community is in desperate need of resources that contribute to wellness and overall wellbeing, including admission to high-quality healthcare, social, educational, and emotional support," says Isaac P. Dapkins, Md, chief medical officeholder at the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone. "The breadth and scope of programs supported by this accolade will allow united states to achieve more people through the pandemic and beyond."

"Our community faces many healthcare challenges amplified past the COVID-xix pandemic," says Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, who helped secure the federal funding. "The American Rescue Plan funding ensures the Family Wellness Centers at NYU Langone continues their of import work, providing crucial services during an unprecedented time."

Nigh the Family Wellness Centers at NYU Langone
Principally located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, 1 of the highest Medicaid-concentrated communities in the United States, the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone is a customs-based program that provides loftier-quality primary and preventive outpatient care to adults and children, regardless of their power to pay or health insurance condition. The program serves approximately 100,000 people each year throughout Brooklyn and other parts of New York City.

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