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RENEE
HASTICK-MOTES
VICE PRESIDENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
EPISCOPAL HEALTH SERVICES/ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD
Renee Hastick-Motes is the Vice President of External Affairs at Episcopal Health
Services/St. John’s Episcopal Hospital (SJEH)—the only hospital located on the Rockaway
peninsula. As a member of the executive team at Episcopal Health Services, Hastick-Motes
has been responsible for creating and implementing the hospital’s legislative agenda, and
external relations strategy. She has overseen marketing and communications, public
affairs, pastoral care, philanthropic and grant acquisition efforts.
At the age of seven, Hastick-Motes learned the importance of community engagement,
relationship building, and marketing. These lifelong lessons have carried her throughout
her career.
She was pivotal in securing a $4.2M City grant for the renovation of SJEH’s Labor and
Delivery Unit, and was instrumental in the creation of SJEH’s mobile health van program,
which brought medical screening services across the rockaway peninsula. Recently, she
led a team to complete the hospital’s community health needs assessment after the height
of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has been leading an interdisciplinary team to develop
and implement a marketing strategy for obstetric services.
Hastick-Motes has also been serving as an Adjunct Professor at Hofstra University,
teaching in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communications in the department of
Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations. Throughout her career, Hastick-Motes has
held various leadership positions including Associate Vice President of Community and
Government Affairs for one of New York City’s largest human service agencies. In this
capacity, she led an advisory committee that was pivotal in changing the NYC Health
Penal Law, worked with local community groups to advocate and resolve issues regarding
the stigma of mental health, and created programming to heighten the agency’s profile.
Hastick-Motes served as the Special Assistant & Policy Analyst to the Deputy Borough
President at the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President. In this role, she led and
developed initiatives such as Brooklyn’s Women in Leadership Forum, the Civic
Engagement Symposium Series specifically for College-level Student Government
Associations, and various community initiatives.
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HELEN
ARTEAGA
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Helen Arteaga is Chief Executive Offifificer at New York City
Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst. She is the former Assistant
Vice President, Queens Network and Executive Initiatives
at Urban Health Plan, a network of community health
centers located in three boroughs in New York City.
Helen is Ecuadorian and a long-time resident of Corona,
Queens. Helen grew up understanding the role that health
care had on a community. She dreamed of establishing a community health center
that would provide quality health care to local residents. Following the death of her
community activist father, she set out to build that health center in her beloved
Corona. Working with Our Lady of Sorrows Church and other community leaders,
she sought out Paloma Hernandez, the President and CEO of Urban Health Plan,
Inc., to make her dream a reality. Together, they opened Plaza del Sol Family
Health Center in June, 2009. Last year, Plaza Del Sol provided care to more than
29,000 patients regardless of their ability to pay. The health center was dedicated
in her father’s memory in 2014.
Helen has a bachelor’s degree from New York University and a Master of Public
Health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Completed a
fellowship with the National Hispana Leadership Institute and Harvard Kennedy
School of Government in September 2010. In March 2016, she was appointed to
the NYC Health + Hospitals Board of Directors and to the NYU Alumni Board of
Directors. Currently completing her doctoral degree at CUNY-School of Public
Health. She was one of 31 women selected by the New York City Commission on
Women’s Issues to be featured in "NYC Women: Make it Here, Make it Happen,"
a series highlighting women who made a difference in their communities. She also
received the Community Impact Award, Humanitarian Award and City of New
York American Dreamer Award.
She is married to Victor Landaverde and is the proud mother of 3 amazing
children: VictorLuis, Moses, and Victoria. She continues to reside in her beloved
Corona, Queens.
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NICOLE
JORDAN-MARTIN
MPA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMMUNITY CARE
As Chief Executive Offifificer, Nicole Jordan-Martin
provides leadership and oversight for overall strategy,
implementation and associated performance metrics for
Community Care. She has been responsible for strategic
priorities including patient growth, clinical integration,
care management, quality, financial sustainability, and
business operation. She has also provided executive oversight for the design,
planning, implementation and management of the COVID-19 Isolation Hotel
Program, that also served as the flflflagship isolation hotel program for the NYC
Test and Trace Corps.
Prior to this, Jordan-Martin served as Chief Operating Offififificer for Community
Care providing executive leadership for the overall business development
strategy, implementation and associated performance metrics of Community
Care. She was responsible for operational leadership in the areas of Information
Technology (IT), Facilities Management, Project Management, Contract-
ing, Human Resources, as well as maintaining a network of Community-based
Organizations (CBOs) to support the community-based care management
needs of the enterprise’s attributed patients.
She worked internationally under the auspices of the U.S. President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief as a Country Director and led the design,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a 5-year infrastructural project in
Georgetown, Guyana. She has also consulted for the World Health Organization
on a regional approach to scale up the prevention of mother-to-child
transmission of HIV and pediatric HIV care and treatment in Sub-Saharan
Africa.
Jordan-Martin received an MPA in Public Health Administration from Long
Island University and a BS in Health Services Administration from St. Joseph’s
College where she also earned certififififififififificates in Healthcare management and
Home Care Administration.
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DR. JASMIN
MOSHIPUR
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
NYC HEALTH + HOSPITALS/ELMHURST AND QUEENS
Dr. Jasmin Moshirpur is the Chief Medical Offificer for
NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst and Queens, as well
as a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Dean
for Elmhurst/Queens Programs at the Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Moshirpur received her
MD degree from the Shiraz University School of Medicine in Iran and
emigrated to the US for residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mount
Sinai Medical Center. She completed a fellowship in GYN Endocrinology
and is Board Certifififified in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
As Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Out-Patient Department at
Elmhurst Hospital Center, she pioneered an outstanding program for the community
that rigorously emphasized preventive medicine; including routine
pap smears for detecting early cervical neoplasia, a cancer detection team
that performed breast physical exams on all adult female hospital admissions
when clinically feasible. This laid the foundation for a career passionately
committed to improving and redefifififining women’s health care and medical
education and helping to establish the Cancer Center of Excellence at
Queens Hospital Center.
Dr. Moshirpur’s many honors include Transitional Services for New York
2016 Physician of the Year, The 2015 Jacobi Medallion, Outstanding Clinical
Teacher of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Alpha Omega Alpha at Sinai,
Torchbearers for Excellence in Health Care at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Presi-
dent of the Saul B. Gusberg Society, President of the Queens Gynecology
Society, and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Iranian American Medical
Association in the United States and is a member of the American Academy
of Medical Directors.
Dr. Moshirpur has three children and ten grandchildren that she is very
proud of.
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