Newsday article: Street medicine team provides care to Long Island's homeless
Aug 11
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Insightful Newsday article on our Street Medicine program showing the impact of our work over the last year with @Northwell and our Long Island Coalition for the Homeless team, led by Dylan Schwarz. A huge thanks to Debbie Salas-Lopez, MD, MPH, FACP for her advocacy and commitment to providing healthcare to people living unsheltered on Long Island, and to the incredible volunteers at Northwell Health and Molloy University for their dedication to the most vulnerable members of our communities.
"We do a lot of survival work with folks on the street, but our ultimate goal is helping them get into permanent housing”
- Greta Guarton, LMSW, executive director and CEO of Long Island Coalition for the Homeless
"Working with the Coalition helped us understand how important it is to approach people with respect and dignity and not make assumptions of what they need”
- Debbie Salas-Lopez, MD, MPH, FACP, executive vice president for Northwell’s Institute for Community Health and Wellness
Read the full article at the PDF below.
