CHCANYS' Statewide Hybrid Advocacy Week 2023
Invite colleagues, patients, friends, and family to join us in advocacy throughout the week of February 27 - March 6 to advance community health center and patient priorities in the New York State 2024 budget! Below is a schedule of CHCANYS Statewide Advocacy Week, registration and details are forthcoming:
CHCANYS Statewide Advocacy Week - February 27 - March 6
Health centers should schedule their own virtual appointments with their State legislators throughout the week or in-person in the afternoon during our Albany Capitol Day on Monday, March 6.
Patient Voices Panel - Monday, February 27 at 12:00-1:30PM
The Patient Voices Panel kicks off CHCANYS Advocacy Week with a panel of patient advocates sharing their community health center story! CHCANYS is excited to have Serena Muñiz from Union Community Health Center as the moderator for the event. Learn more about. Ms. Muñiz here. Monday’s program will also have the presentation of the Dorothy Kartashevich Award to Marie Lam, Vice Chairperson of the Board, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center. Click here to learn more about Marie and to see all the nominees.
Celebrating Our CHC Workforce - Friday, March 3 at 12:00-1:00PM
VIRTUAL EVENT
Celebrating Our CHC Workforce is an event appreciating our health center staff for their dedication to upholding the health center mission of ensuring that all New Yorkers are able to access high quality affordable primary and preventive care whenever they need it! This event will feature remarks from Dr. Michael Curry, Esq., President & CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and presentation of the Dr. Jack Geiger Award to Dr. William Borgos, Chief Medical Officer, Hudson Headwaters Health Network. Click here to learn more about Dr. Borgos and to see all the nominees.
Capitol Day - Monday, March 6 at 10:30AM-12:15PM
IN-PERSON EVENT
This week of advocacy will culminate in-person in Albany for Capitol Day! Capitol Day will be an in-person event featuring welcome remarks, invited speakers including Lt. Governor Delgado, and the presentation of the Catherine Abate Award! The event will take place 10:30AM-12:15PM in the Empire State Plaza Meeting Rooms, with breakfast available starting at 9:00AM. If you have any questions, contact Jane, jni@chcanys.org.
Following CHCANYS' in-person event is a rally to Save 340B in the Well at the Legislative Office Building at 12:30PM. Registration is not required for this event. Please note: This event is being photographed and/or video recorded for archival, educational, and related promotional purposes.
For any questions, please reach out to Jane Ni, Policy Analyst, at jni@chcanys.org.
Again this year, CHCANYS is offering an economic impact analysis to all NYS CHCs. The analysis is available without charge to CHCANYS organizational members. Non-member CHCs should email data@chcanys.org for details.
As a reminder, the Economic Impact Analysis is an estimate of your health center’s contribution to the local economy in 2021, based on direct spending and local spending generated through vendors and employees.
To obtain your 2021 update, please send a request to our data team at data@chcanys.org and include:
- Your total FTE employment (Table 5, line 34, column A) and total accrued costs (Table 8A, line 17, column C) from the 2021 UDS report, and
- a statement authorizing CHCANYS to use this UDS information to develop an economic impact analysis.
If you have questions about the analysis, please contact Jim Welsh at (jwelsh@chcanys.org).
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