Healthcare Education Project

04/23/2026

🚨 Community Health Alert & Information Session 🚨

The NYC Department of Mental Health and Hygiene has reported an outbreak of Hepatitis A in parts of Queens and Brooklyn, including Corona, Elmhurst, Woodhaven, Ridgewood, and Bushwick.

Join us for an important community talk covering:

✅ Prevention
✅ Symptoms
✅ Treatment
✅ How Hepatitis A spreads

🗓 Date: Thursday, April 23
⏰ Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
📍 Location: Corona Community Library�38-23 104th Street, Corona, NY 11368

This session is open to the public and designed to help keep our families and neighbors informed and safe. All are welcome.
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🚨 Alerta de Salud Comunitaria e Información Importante 🚨

El Departamento de Salud Mental e Higiene de la Ciudad de Nueva York ha reportado un brote de Hepatitis A en áreas de Queens y Brooklyn, incluyendo Corona, Elmhurst, Woodhaven, Ridgewood y Bushwick.

Les invitamos a participar en una charla informativa sobre:

✅ Prevención
✅ Síntomas
✅ Tratamiento
✅ Cómo se transmite la Hepatitis A

🗓 Fecha: Jueves, 23 de abril
⏰ Hora: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
📍 Lugar: Biblioteca Comunitaria de Corona�38-23 104th Street, Corona, NY 11368

Esta sesión está abierta al público y está diseñada para ayudar a mantener informadas y seguras a nuestras familias y comunidad. Todos son bienvenidos.

04/23/2026

Dr. Nawal M. Nour is the Sudanese American founder and director of the African Women’s Health Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the only one of its kind in the country. She received the MacArthur Foundation Genius Fellowship Award for her dedication to African women’s medical empowerment.

04/22/2026

The number one worry for Americans?

Healthcare costs.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/707732/healthcare-reclaims-top-spot-among-domestic-worries.aspx

04/22/2026

Today is Earth Day, a global celebration of "Our Power, Our Planet", a theme that focuses on community action and the power of collective action to confront climate change. To see events and to register your event, visit http://earthday.org

04/21/2026

Culturally Competent Care

The ability of care providers to incorporate a patient's values, beliefs and behaviors into care delivery to provide them the highest quality of care and reduce healthcare disparities.

04/21/2026

Do you have 30 seconds? You have time to help New York.

We’re in a Code Red healthcare funding crisis, but you can make a difference.

Contact your lawmaker. Let them know New York needs to protect healthcare in the state budget.

Federal cuts created a massive healthcare funding gap. Now Albany must step up and protect our healthcare. Lawmakers are finalizing their budget proposal right now—this is our moment to speak up.

04/21/2026

Rochester Community!

Thank you all for answering the call and contributing supplies to Rochester City School #50 and supporting their need for personal hygiene products. This continues to show your support, and it goes unwavering!!! You all ROCK!! Hygiene is health and that's what we do!!

This is what community looks like!!

04/20/2026

Trump’s One Big Bill has caused a healthcare crisis in New York.

As the number of uninsured New Yorkers is on the rise, health officials are getting creative to ensure as many people as possible remain covered.

04/20/2026

This week's Word of the Week is Immunosuppressive Drugs.

These are medicines that reduce or prevent the body's ability to reject a transplanted organ or tissue. 💊

04/17/2026

It’s Medicaid Awareness Month.

7.5 million New Yorkers rely on the program, but federal healthcare cuts continue to threaten our healthcare system.

04/16/2026

New York is in Code Red. You can help.

04/15/2026

Most states already don’t have the staff available to handle Medicaid applications quickly. With new and unnecessary mandated work requirements from Congress’ “One Big Bill,” paperwork will only cause further strain on Medicaid employees and a delay on benefits for enrollees.

Some states already don't have enough staff to quickly process Medicaid applications and answer enrollees' phone calls. Researchers say they may not be prepared to handle new Medicaid work rules, predicting people will lose coverage as a result.