Caribbean L 16 ife, APRIL 23-29, 2021
Ribbon Cutting: From left: Pastor Gilford Monrose-Kingsbrook Community
Leadership Council Chair; Dante Arnwine - CB9 District Manager;
Dona Green-SVP Transformation/Strategic Planning for One Brooklyn
Health (OBH); Edline Jacquet - Chief of Staff to Senator Zellnor Myrie;
LaRay Brown - CEO of OBH; Anita Taylor - Chief of Staff to Congresswoman
Yvette Clarke; Paul Rosenfeld -Executive Director Kingsbrook Jewish
Medical Center @ OBH; Councilmember Alicka Ampry-Samuel; and Joan
Bakiriddin-CB-17 Chairperson. Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center/Jeremy Williams
One Brooklyn Health
reopens Pierre Toussaint
Family Health Center
By Nelson A. King
One Brooklyn Health (OBH) on Wednesday,
April 14 celebrated the re-opening of
its newly renovated Pierre Toussaint Family
Health Center on Wednesday, April
14 at 1110 Eastern Parkway and Utica
Avenue, Brooklyn.
“One Brooklyn Health is excited to provide
the residents of Central
Brooklyn a state-ofthe
art health care center,”
LaRay Brown, chief executive
officer of One Brooklyn
Health, told Caribbean
Life. “The Pierre Toussaint
Health Care Center has
been fully renovated and
expanded to provide more
than 28,000 urgent care,
primary care and specialty
care visits.”
Brown said this project
was funded with New
York State capital funding
through the “Health Care
Facility Transformation:
Kings County Project” and
is one of the 30 new ambulatory
The Radiology Suite
at the fully-renovated
Pierre Toussaint Family
Health Center on Eastern
Parkway. Kingsbrook
Jewish Medical Center/Jeremy
Williams
care centers that One Brooklyn will
develop as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s
Vital Brooklyn Initiative.
Enid Dillard — director of marketing
and public affairs at Kingsbrook Jewish
Medical Center, which is part of the
OBH network — said the much-anticipated
event included a facility tour of the
10,000-square-feet center and an overview
of services provided that “respond
to the unique health care needs of the
community.”
She said OBH was awarded a multiyear
grant of $664 million dollars to renovate
this center; develop a Medical Village
on the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center
campus; and establish or expand new
community-based ambulatory care centers,
many of which will be through partnerships
with Federally Qualified Health
Centers.
In addition, Dillard said the grant will
aid in renovating inpatient and emergency
services areas, implementing
an electronic health
record to ensure coordination
of patients’ care, and
making critically-needed
improvements to the infrastructure
of the safety net
hospital system’s buildings/
facilities.
“One Brooklyn Health
was established to preserve
and enhance healthcare
services in the communities
of Central Brooklyn,”
Dillard said.
She said the health care
system includes Brookdale
Hospital Medical Center,
Interfaith Medical Center,
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical
Center, Rutland Nursing Home, Schulman
& Schachne Institute for Nursing
& Rehabilitation and several ambulatory
care centers, including the Pierre Toussaint
Family Health Center.
Dillard said the Health Care Facility
Transformation: Kings County Project
was established by New York State “to
strengthen and protect continued access
to health care services in communities
in which a high number of residents are
Medicaid enrollees or uninsured, and residents
have experienced significant health
disparities and service needs compared to
other communities in Brooklyn.”