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DFTA's relationships with healthcare providers

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Council Member Schulman inquires about DFTA's relationships with healthcare providers, particularly NYC Health + Hospitals. Commissioner Cortés-Vázquez describes close collaborations with both H+H and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH).

Both H+H and DOHMH are part of the aging cabinet, facilitating good relationships
Collaboration on addressing impacts of federal funding cuts
DFTA provides training to H+H frontline staff on aging issues and community services
Ongoing communication and joint work on health initiatives, including fall prevention

Lynn C. Schulman

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Do you have a and I know that you have home care, caregiver services, all of that.

0:36:34

Do you have relationships with like New York City H and H and other medical providers to try and get folks medical care?

Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez

0:36:45

Yes.

0:36:45

We work very closely.

0:36:47

Both both entities are part of the aging cabinet.

0:36:51

And so we have a real good relationship not only looking at how we can move forward in the future but we're also looking at what are the impacts of these federal cuts and seeing how we can do some gap filling.

0:37:05

The other thing that we have done is right now we're in conversations with DOHMH just around the measles incidence is not affecting older adults.

0:37:18

But maybe we should do some education around awareness of vaccines, overall vaccines.

0:37:24

And so that we're in constant communication with them and in work.

0:37:29

I mean they do all of our health, false prevention work.

0:37:33

There's a lot of work that we do in concert with both.

0:37:37

The other thing that we do, particularly with H and H, is we train a lot of their frontline staff on aging issues so that when an older adult goes into one of the hospital facilities or community facilities, those individuals are aware of what are some particular aging needs but also the community services that they can refer an older adult to.

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