East New York Community Health Center
East New York Community Health Center
"On a bright morning last week, the East New York Community Health Center celebrated its gleaming expansion, something made possible largely by a $541,000 federal grant of the kind intended to flourish under the imperiled Affordable Care Act.
Supported by various public funds, the center is run by Housing Works, the 22-year-old nonprofit organization that acts as a kind of entrepreneurial Robin Hood, collecting the discards of the affluent — the merino wool sweaters, lacquered end tables and Lorrie Moore novels — and selling them to help finance the needs of poor people with H.I.V. and AIDS. The newly refurbished wing functions as a site for primary care, offering patients treatment for virtually any kind of ailment. Everyone is welcome no matter the particulars of insurance or immigration standing."
-From The New York Times, April 8, 2012
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