Seacoast location hospitals earn top rated grades for safety: Seacoast well being information

Wentworth-Douglass grant provides $50K for group transportation

DOVER – Wentworth-Douglass Healthcare facility has awarded a $10,000 community advantage grant to the Alliance for Group Transportation (ACT), a group that coordinates and provides group transportation, mostly for seniors and adults with disabilities, in Southeastern New Hampshire. The grant will permit the firm to entry an further $40,000 in federal funds.

“Our crew right here at Wentworth-Douglass knows firsthand from our patient population how important it is to take away barriers to transportation, and with the capacity to purchase supplemental federal pounds, there is no doubt this system will have a significant effects on the health and wellbeing of our neighbors,” stated Michelle Hanson, director of strategic organizing and group profit at Wentworth-Douglass.

ACT’s lead agency and fiscal sponsor is the Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation (Coast), but its perform is largely funded by Federal Transit Administration money that are passed by way of the NH Office of Transportation. ACT ought to supply non-USDOT funding to leverage the $40,000 in federal dollars.

“I’m very grateful to Wentworth-Douglass for stepping up and funding this critical group initiative,” reported Jeff Donald, regional mobility supervisor for ACT and TripLink, a regional transportation phone center. “Particularly as we emerge from the pandemic, this $50,000 will enable to ACT to react to essential support fluctuations or staffing modifications in real time,” he mentioned.

TripLink has operated continuously through the pandemic, making certain that the region’s most susceptible residents go on to have accessibility to clinical care, grocery purchasing, and other transportation requirements. In November 2021, ACT re-released its website, re-branding it to target mainly on TripLink and on reaching people in need of transportation and their caregivers. The firm says the new site will make it possible for older adults and grown ups with disabilities to sign-up

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Mayor Adams, NYC Health + Hospitals Expand Access to Lifestyle Medicine Services City-Wide

February 7, 2022

Announcement Represents Most Comprehensive Expansion of
Lifestyle Medicine Programming in U.S.

New Expansion Will Provide Dedicated Team-Based Support for
Healthy Lifestyle Changes, Including Emphasis on Plant-Based Diet

Programming to Help Address Burdens of Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, Other Common Chronic Conditions Disproportionately Impacting Black and Brown New Yorkers

Services Will Be Expanded to Six New Public Health Care Sites Across NYC

Video available at: https://youtu.be/4ANPW9hWFkk

 

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H) today announced the expansion of their groundbreaking lifestyle medicine services at six public health care sites across New York City — the most comprehensive expansion of lifestyle medicine programming in the U.S. Modeled off the popular and successful Plant-Based Lifestyle Medicine Program at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, the new expansion will provide patients living with chronic disease the tools to make healthy lifestyle changes, included providing them access to plant-based diet resources. The program will expand to serve qualifying NYC Health + Hospitals adult patients at Jacobi, Lincoln, Woodhull, Kings County, and Elmhurst hospitals, as well as Gotham Health, Vanderbilt. The program expansion will be implemented over the coming year.

“Today, New York City is again leading the way with the most comprehensive expansion of lifestyle medicine programming in the nation,” said Mayor Adams. “This is personal to me — a plant-based lifestyle helped save my life, and I’m thrilled that New Yorkers in every zip code will have access to this critical programming. Together, we will stop feeding the health care crisis and ensure all New Yorkers can access the healthy lifestyle they deserve.”

“This expanded programming won’t only touch the lives of the patients served, but will extend to the families and communities of every person served,” said Deputy Mayor for Health and Human

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