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One Million Strong Healthcare Services Healthcare for
Everyone
As a flagship delivery model for community-based healthcare, Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center provides a critical link to high-quality health services to lower income communities.
By Judith M. Watson, RN, BSN, MPH, Chief Executive Officer of the Mount
Vernon Neighborhood Health Center
There are many pockets of impoverished people residing in these areas and we can be accepting of the most vulnerable.
We offer everything: internal medicine, pediatrics, ob-gyn, dental care, behavioral care, and specialties like dermatology, podiatry and opthamology. We are unique because we don’t just offer primary, specialty and behavioral care, but also support services, like translators, patient advocates, Medicaid eligibility examiners, as well as social workers and nutritionists. We also provide transportation, onsite labs and food pantries, as well as educational programming for pregnancy, diabetes and hypertension. We also strive to address the social determinants of health in our delivery model.
Being in Westchester, we enjoy access to great healthcare talent, as well as a wonderful location and a host of resources and organizations. For example, there’s a food program called Feeding Westchester. We collaborated with them to create a food pantry that serves thousands of families. Additionally, the Latimer administration has been
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Above: MVNHC CEOJudith M. Watson, RN, BSN, MPH
Top: Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center has provided healthcare to those
in need for nearly
50 years.
Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center (MVNHC) serves as a healthcare home to thousands of residents and families in lower Westchester County and the Bronx. With eight lo- cations, including sites in Mount Vernon, Yonkers and Greenburgh, a school-based health program, and programs supporting people experiencing homelessness, we provide efficient, safe, effective, and patient-centered healthcare that patients need and deserve. For nearly 50 years, we have worked to improve the lives of our community members by providing high-quality, comprehen- sive, affordable primary and preventive healthcare, to everyone and anyone.
MVNHC serves more than 20,000 patients per year. Because we are a Federally Qualified Health Center, no one is turned away based on ability to pay or immigration status. Community health centers are the entryway into the healthcare system for the most vulnerable in the U.S. Our locations are strategically placed in all the largest cities to serve underserved residents throughout the County.
© Courtesy of Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center, Inc.
© Courtesy of Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center, Inc.