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Part 1: Launch of OurHealthNYC
Hosts & Moderators:
Dr. Debbie Almontaser, CEO Bridging Culture Group, Inc.
Bruce Degn, Executive Director, OurHealthNYC
Topic: Introduce Format, Topic & Panelists
Date Recorded: 24 March 2021
Length: 3:29 Minutes
Topics: The effects of the COVID pandemic on communities of color; Lessons learnt from the COVID crisis; How to serve New Yorkers in the languages each person understand; Providing healthcare to the uninsured, undocumented, and non-English speaking New Yorkers; The launch of OurHealthcareNYC.
Part 2: Launch of OurHealthNYC
Speaker: Dr. Syra Madad, New York City Health + Hospital
Topic: Fixing Healthcare so it Serves Everyone
Date Recorded: 24 March 2021
Length: 5:34 Minutes
Topics: The COVID virus does not discriminate, but the current healthcare system does; We must to reevaluate the short-term and long-terms healthcare objectives; We need to move beyond “responding” to outbreaks, we must prevent them; How do we fix public health.
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Part 3: Launch of OurHealthNYC
Speaker: Councilman Mark Levine, New York City
Topic: Removing the Barriers of Language and Culture from Healthcare
Date Recorded: 24 March 2021
Length: 5:27 Minutes
Topics: What did we learn from the COVID pandemic; How do we support immigrant and vulnerable communities; Why New York City needs the services provided by OurHealthNYC.
Part 4: Launch of OurHealthNYC
Speaker: Sheik Musa Drammeh, Bronx-based Muslim Faith Leader, New York City
Topic: Sheik Musa Drammeh shares pandemic-related stories of suffering and loss in the tightknit African immigrant community in Bronx.
Date Recorded: 24 March 2021
Length: 7:15 Minutes
Topics: The New York City borough of The Bronx suffered the largest number of confirmed cases of COVID, and the most COVID-related deaths than any other zip code in the U.S. Sheik Musa Drammeh urges that we improve how we make quality healthcare accessible for all New Yorkers.
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Part 5: Launch of OurHealthNYC
Speaker: Dr. Omar Lattouf, Founder of OurHealthNYC & Cardiovascular Surgeon
Topic: Dr. Lattouf outlines his bold plans to provide healthcare to New York City’s communities of color, and to the city’s most vulnerable residents.
Date Recorded: 24 March 2021
Length: 8:40 Minutes
Topics: Dr. Lattouf explains the imperative to leverage technology, wireless connectivity, and professional healthcare staff to effectively provide remote healthcare to ALL New Yorkers in need… whether they are uninsured, undocumented, or speak another language.
Part 6: Launch of OurHealthNYC
Speakers:
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, New York City
Jim Winkler, President and General Secretary of the National Council of Churches
Topic: Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum and Jim Winkler discuss the need to improve healthcare for all—that we must do a better job in taking care of all of God’s children.
Date Recorded: 24 March 2021
Length: 3 Minutes
Topics: Two influential faith leaders endorse OurHealthNYC’s vision to provide remote monitoring healthcare and healthcare education to NYC’s most vulnerable communities and to provide care that is both linguistically and culturally sensitive to each and every patient.
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