Dr. Robert Evans, CEO and President of Community Wellness Centers of America, LLC (CWCOA) announced today the formation of a “Community Healthcare Oversight Committee”. The Community Healthcare Oversight Committee will reflect the organizations commitment and mission to identify health improvements that will sustain the health and well-being of the community.
Dr. Evans stated that “CWCOA’s mission to elevate the health and welfare of children, seniors, and families within the community is critical; and everyone in this community should want their families, neighbors and friends to enjoy decent healthcare services. The formation of this “Community Healthcare Oversight Committee” seeks to achieve an effective and efficient healthcare delivery model that will foster a full spectrum of local integrated organizational planning and implementation.
Dr. Evans further states, the “Community Healthcare Oversight Committee” will provide the leadership and support to reduce health disparities in South East Queens, Jamaica and alleviate the healthcare crisis affecting our community through services, education and research.”
Dr. Abraham B. Bornstein, F.A.C.C. will Chair the “Community Healthcare Oversight Committee”. Dr. Bornstein is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Hofstra Medical School. Dr. Bornstein, formally an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College has more than 25 years of clinical practice experience in invasive & interventional cardiology, as well as critical care medicine. At Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr. Bornstein was involved in many levels of medical education and chaired and participated in several critical committees. (Click here for list of committees) His extensive academic background and published medical research is second to none. His work in the Public Health sector is well documented.
Additionally, Dr. Bornstein is pleased to announce the following appointments to the “Community Healthcare Oversight Committee: which includes: Dr. Rubin Cooper FACC chief of pediatric cardiology at LIJ/NS system, Dr. Stacy Rubin FACC, associate chief of cardiology at LIJ/NS system, and Dr. Jose Katz FACC, Co-Director of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Assistant Attending Physician in Medicine and Radiology- New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Center
Also appointed as Medical Advisor to the “Community Healthcare Oversight Committee” will be Dr. Gerald Deas, who is currently, a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Associate Professor of preventive medicine and Director of Health Education Communications at SUNY downstate Medical Center.
For many years Dr. Deas had a primary care practice in an inner-city area of Queens, NY, and has been deeply involved in health education throughout his career. For ten years he was the medical reporter on the McCreary Report on Fox Television (Channel 5). For 20 years, he has spoken on WLIB radio five mornings a week, Monday through Friday, addressing issues of health promotion and disease prevention. In addition, he has a weekly half-hour show on Time-Warner cable TV, as well as shows on Brooklyn Cable Access TV (BCAT) and Brooklyn/Queens Cable TV. His articles appear regularly in the Amsterdam News, Caribe News, and the New York Voice, among other publications. Dr. Deas has lectured and served as a preceptor in the department’s required small group teaching programs for more than twenty years.
Under the Chairmanship of Dr. Bornstein, the guidance from Dr. Deas and the physicians initially appointed to this committee, the “Community Healthcare Oversight Committee” will seek to identify and improve the health status of our community in the following ways:
- Identify and promote health and wellness services and programs for individuals and families that establish medical evidence based services and establish a comprehensive continuum of care enabling the creation of an integrated healthcare delivery system and establishes personal health records for all individual members of the community:
- Identify and develop education programs and home medical services that help serve and support an unmet community health need.
- Develop and promote healthcare services and programs that encourage an active and healthy lifestyle.
- Identify grant funding or philanthropy donations to provide necessary public health research for the deliverance of quality driven, cost effective/efficient services that reaches all of our residents, and increases the quality of their health.
- Clearly identify certain community needs so medical services can improve health outcomes in our under served community, and enable us to deliver evidence based care with the healthcare information technologies which need grant funds to ensure that our community residents will have access to their personal health record.
- Develop practice patterns of care that specifically measures the quality of the medical care.
- Develop health educational programs that address topics such as chronic/infectious diseases, chronic illnesses, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies, and Healthy Children, and establish centralized locations for conducting these programs.
- Identify and secure grants to institute evidence based care with medical schools research and development assistance and train local residents in various professions supporting this community initiative, and for the recruitment of physicians into the community and subsidization of costs in establishing a community office practice.
CWCOA is committed to proactively developing healthcare programs and services and welcomes active collaboration for successfully providing community healthcare needs and extends this open invitation to all legislators, community interest groups, organizations, activists and churches to join in this healthcare initiative.
Should you have any questions about this pilot healthcare initiative, or if you’re interested in participating in the “Community Healthcare Oversight Committee” please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Evans directly at revans@cwcoa.
References: www.cwcoa.com