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NORTH AMERICAN Newsline MAY 30, 2025 | The Indian Eye 24

NYC Health + Hospitals’ NYC Care and

NYC Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit Launch

‘Immigrant Health Care Day of Action’

OUR BUREAU volunteers canvassed in neighbor- or call 646-692-2273.” behavioral health appointments.
hoods with the highest concentration “Everyone in this city has a right NYC Care’s community-based
New York, NY
of NYC Care-eligible immigrant New to health care- regardless of immigra- organization partners have reached
YC Health + Hospitals’ NYC Yorkers to speak about the importance tion status,” said Adrienne Lever, Ex- over 1 million New Yorkers, sched-
Care program partnered with of health care access and primary care. ecutive Director, Public Engagement uled over 43,000 enrollment appoint-
Nthe NYC Mayor’s Public En- The city-wide mobilization served to Unit. “In today’s climate too many ments, and facilitated over 17,000
gagement Unit’s GetCoveredNYC remind all New Yorkers that health of our neighbors are afraid to access direct enrollments. Last month, the
team on a city-wide “Immigrant care is available regardless of one’s the services they need. That’s why our program hosted a media roundtable
Health Care Day of Action.” The immigration status or ability to pay. team at PEU is out on the streets, to remind immigrant New Yorkers of
outreach effort mobilized dozens of “I couldn’t be prouder of the helping spread the word that NYC is their rights and the resources avail-
agency staff, community-based orga- staff, community partners, and vol- committed to ensuring safe access to able to them, regardless of their im-
nization partners, and volunteers who unteers who came together during to- health coverage and offering immi- migration status or ability to pay.
participated in canvassing, tabling, day’s Day of Action with the mission grant communities hands-on support From working with the Depart-
and posting social media messaging of helping to keep New Yorkers from with applications for NYC Care.” ment of Health & Mental Hygiene to
to get the word out. NYC Care Exec- immigrant communities healthy,” In-Person Partners Included: launch the Groceries to Go program
utive Director Dr. Jonathan Jiménez said Jonathan Jiménez, MD, MPH, Make The Road NY, Met Council, providing discounted groceries for
and the NYC Mayor’s Public Engage- Executive Director of NYC Care Emerald Isle Immigration Center, members, to developing multi-lin-
ment Unit Executive Director Adri- from NYC Health + Hospitals. Korean Community Services, Trini- gual video series about the program
enne Lever helped to kick off the day “Something as simple as a dadians and Tobagonians USA, Com- and deploying public awareness
of action that morning by joining a five-minute conversation about the munity Church of Christ and Mixteca. campaigns, NYC Care continues to
health fair organized NYC Care part- benefits of NYC Care can have a last- NYC Care has grown to roughly champion the health needs of all New
ner Mixteca. ing impact. I would also underscore 140,000 active members and has pro- Yorkers.
Mixteca and NYC Care partner that your privacy is important to us, vided over one million primary care NYC Mayor’s Public Engage-
South Asian Council for Social Ser- and you are not required to share appointments for its members. Since ment Unit Executive Director Adri-
vices (SACSS) celebrated their or- information about your immigration launching in 2019, it has provided hun- enne Lever (second from right) and
ganizations’ 25-year anniversaries by status to receive care when you visit dreds of thousands of specialty care ap- NYC Care Executive Director Dr.
launching health fairs and organizing our hospitals and clinics. New York- pointments, including 365,226 wom- Jonathan Jiménez (right) pose with
their staff to join the outreach effort. ers interested in learning more about en’s health appointments, 284,766 PEU outreach staff before distribut-
As the day went on, organizers and NYC Care can visit NYCCare.NYC eye care appointments, and 187,425 ing flyers in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

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