“We are very excited to be in our new home…”
The non-profit community health center, Center for Comprehensive Health Practice, located in East Harlem for almost 6 decades, has a new home, something that without a doubt for its medical director, Dr. Mariely Fernández, is a great achievement.
Dr. Mariely Fernández, CCHP Medical Director explains:
“The clinic was founded by a man who was a visionary, he wanted a center where families could all come together, all in one day, to receive all the services, and all the support they needed.”
The dispensary, now located at 35 East 110th Street, integrates primary care, substance use treatment, mental health, and support services all under one roof, in order to offer its patients community health care. , affordable and above all family-focused.
“What makes us so special is that we focus on families, especially children, who are the core of many families,” says Fernández.
This focus on the family is one of the reasons why Maribel Estévez, her children and grandchildren have been patients for 12 years.
Maribel Estévez, a CCHP patient, maintains:
“Because of the service they offer, the treatment they give to the patients and because they are bilingual, because sometimes, many times, it is difficult to find.”
Dr. Fernández says that one of the benefits of the place is that it has a fully equipped games room, and a staff capable of taking care of the little ones while their parents attend their medical appointments.
Blanca Bahuer, is a supervisor of the games room and comments:
“It’s definitely something different because here you don’t have to worry about who is going to see the child when I’m seeing the doctor, or where am I going to leave him?”
Its services are available to anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, or ability to pay.
The center has spent the last 60 years serving the East Harlem community and they are happy to continue that work in their new home.
