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NEW YORK CIT, May 7??? HOPE honored The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) at its program graduation ceremony in recognition of the institution’s support of the program’s interns. NYAM has provided internships in its Building Operations department for participants to gain experience supporting their career and helping cultivate the potential for growth.
"Our relationship with the Hope Program involves providing interns from their program with on the job career development opportunities, helping this group grow workplace skills to increase their marketability to be gainfully employed. As an employer, we are proud to be affiliated with the HOPE program," said Seymour Mintzer, Director of Human Resources at NYAM.
HOPE is an organization that helps people overcome the causes of poverty by blending vocational, educational, and social services to prepare individuals to find, keep, and advance in to a career. HOPE connects job-seekers with a wide range of services like addiction treatment, mental-health counseling and help finding child care. Many participants have recently left a homeless shelter, and the organization estimates that 60% of the people who walk into the office for the first time recently left prison.
The New York Academy of Medicine is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit institution whose mission is to enhance the health of the public. Its research, education, community engagement, and evidence-based advocacy seek to improve the health of people living in cities, especially disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. The impact of these initiatives reaches into neighborhoods in New York City, across the country, and around the world. It works with community based organizations, academic institutions, corporations, the media, and government to catalyze and contribute to changes that promote health.
Posted on May 7, 2008
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The 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture - The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View
Featured Speaker: Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
November 19, 2012 - The NYAM Section on Health Care Delivery welcomes Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will deliver the 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture on "The Affordable Care Act: An Insider's View."
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The New York Academy of Medicine with support from the New York State Heath Foundation released a new report, Federal Health Care Reform in New York State: A Population Health Perspective.
This report identifies opportunities that build on both the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and New York’s ongoing efforts toward improving the health of its 19 million residents.
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