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MediSys Health Network is bringing world-class cancer care to Queens and eastern Brooklyn — mitigating healthcare disparities to their diverse patient population.

Partnering with community organizations to create integrated interdisciplinary teams that treat the whole person — ECMC is working to address SDOH and eliminate health disparities, poor health outcomes and hospital readmissions.

The Successful Aging for Increased Longevity project provides integrated, destigmatized mental health services to an underserved older population.

White Plains' Youth Summit brought together students, parents, physicians and community leaders for a day of healthcare activities to promote racial, ethnic and gender diversity among healthcare professionals.

A community collaboration, the Food Farmacy helps primary care providers link patients at risk for food insecurity to nutritional food, education and support with diet, exercise and symptom management.

They were recognized for nurse satisfaction, inpatient and ambulatory nursing-sensitive indicators, patient satisfaction and using technology and innovation to deliver culturally and socially sensitive care.

Pawfessor Spirit and Dr. Joanne Singleton provided hands-on service animal training for staff at Montefiore Nyack, increasing awareness of a service animal's role in a patient’s well-being and recovery.

Partnering with diverse community navigators, MVHS is conducting heart disease education and screenings where community members live, learn, work, play, worship and age.

Their community care team identifies people who need wrap-around services and facilitates ongoing care plans, leveraging the power of a community-based anchor institution to mobilize cross-sector partnerships.

HSS' Aging with Dignity program provides participants with tools to overcome aging challenges, creates a sense of community and offers a calming, supportive and open environment to discuss shared experiences.

Their Food as Medicine program has built a culture of local food procurement practices and increased their community’s access to healthy food.

They established clinical management guidelines and a trauma concurrent nurse reviewer to improve the communication, documentation and follow-up of incidental clinical findings.