Urban Health Plan Boulevard (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of Southern Boulevard and Westchester Avenue
Honoree: Urban Health Plan, Inc. (UHP), opened in 1974, provides affordable primary and specialty health care services to the Hunts Point, Mott Haven and Morrisania communities of the Bronx, Central Harlem and Corona, Queens. Facilities include the original site, nine satellites, a mental health facility, twelve school health programs, three part-time facilities, and six administrative/program sites. UHP began as a group practice with the mission of providing basic and specialty medical care, comparable to those found in local hospital outpatient clinics, to the community’s predominantly Hispanic and poor residents. It originated with Dr. Richard Izquierdo, a pediatrician and family practitioner who opened the San Juan Health Center in 1967. Seven years later, UHP, a private, non-profit corporation was established to broaden the scope of the work started by the San Juan Health Center. Over the years, UHP has allied with several community-based organizations to provide health care services at alternate delivery sites. These sites consist of local schools, an adult day treatment program, a Boys and Girls Club and homeless shelters. UHP has been actively involved with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Primary Health Care Health Care Disparities Collaborative, and has received national recognition for its performance improvement work. Its work with the asthmatic population in the South Bronx has contributed to the reduction in pediatric hospitalizations related to asthma as reported by the N.Y.C. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. (Salamanca)
LL:2022/54