Basic healthcare services are available, including a blood pressure check, demonstrated by
Cornerstone staffer Andrea Bruno, HONOR housing resident Andre Jones, Orange County
Executive Steve Neuhaus
MIDDLETOWN – A new $200,000 mobile medical van has been pressed into service by Cornerstone Family Healthcare, headquartered in Newburgh.
The van, funded by a grant from Affinity Health Plan, will enable the non-profit health center to provide primary care to a greater number of homeless individuals and persons in transition, who otherwise do not have access to basic healthcare.
“Access to healthcare is our number one priority,” said Cornerstone Chief Operating Officer David Jolly. “Removing barriers and meeting patients where they’re at is what sets us apart. If transportation is an issue, there is no reason to try and reinvent transportation; we can deliver the same quality healthcare remotely,” he said.
April Gozza, Cornerstone’s director of public relations and government affairs, said community health centers play a “unique role… in reaching beyond the walls of conventional medicine to address the factors that may cause sickness, such as lack of nutrition, mental illness, homelessness and addiction.”
The new mobile van will be in service at the following Orange County locations:
The Emergency Housing Shelter at Honor, 38 Seward Avenue, Middletown, Tuesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Newburgh Ministries, 9 Johnston Street, Newburgh; Thursday, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Ecclesia House, 91 Ann Street, Newburgh; first Wednesday of the month, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Hudson House, 245 Broadway, Newburgh; second Wednesday of the month from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
YAP, 44 Grand Street, Newburgh; second Wednesday of the month, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
United Methodist Church, 245 Liberty Street, Newburgh; third Wednesday of the month, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Hudson Valley Inn, 5180 Route 9W, Newburgh, fourth Wednesday of the month, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information on Cornerstone’s mobile health programs or Harper Health for individuals and families in housing transition, visit cornerstonefamilyhealthcare.org
