Business
Essen Health Care,
VillageCareMAX and Other
Community Partners
Come Together To Serve
Underserved and Aged
BY JASON COHEN
With a confi rmed 25,000 coronavirus
cases in New York,
health plans, community
organizations and provider networks are
collaborating to keep people safe.
This pandemic, which has numbers and
deaths increasing every day, has disrupted
everyone’s lives. People are out of work,
home from school, strapped for cash,
having diffi culty fi nding food and having
limited access to healthcare.
In order to ensure that people stay
healthy and receive proper medical treatment,
two organizations are working
together.
Essen Health Care, a Bronx-based medical
practice providing primary, specialty
and urgent care, house calls for homebound
elderly and care coordination to
more than 80,000 patients in the borough,
has mobilized their staff to offer clinical
services via “virtual visits” and established
a COVID-19 screening program.
“Essen is working to deliver virtual access
to healthcare professionals who can assess
their patient needs, order medications
and diagnostic tests, monitor conditions,
triage for emergency services, and consult
with specialists,” said Essen Health Care
Chief Medical Offi cer Sumir Sahgal. “We
will also support the Bronx community —
patients, family members, healthcare and
homecare staff — who need screening,
testing and monitoring for coronavirus
infection.”
Essen is working with community
partners, including health plans who
serve individuals and families covered by
Medicare and Medicaid, and community
service organizations. VillageCareMAX,
a New York City-based managed care plan
has provided its community outreach vehicles
to allow Essen to continue to extend
their COVID-19 screening efforts to the
Bronx.
“Our VillageCareMAX community
outreach vehicles will play a critical role
in these amazing services that Essen is
providing to the Bronx community,” said
Emma DeVito, president and chief executive
offi cer at VillageCare. “We are proud
to partner with Essen in battling this
unprecedented virus and ensuring that all
New Yorkers in the Bronx have access to a
trusted resource in these critical times of
uncertainty and anxiety.”
Anyone seeking healthcare services or
COVID-19 screening in the Bronx can call
their health plan, any of the list community
organizations or go to www.essenhealthcare.
com
Essen Health Care is one of the largest,
independent comprehensive physician networks,
incorporating care management and
related services in New York City.
VillageCareMAX is a managed care plan
sponsored by VillageCare, a non-profi t
organization with more than 40 years experience
in delivering health care in New
York City. VillageCare offers managed care
as well as post-acute and community-based
programs.
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