NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Pride Health Center recognized for advancing LGBTQ+ healthcare provider training and education efforts
Organization presented Pride Health Center with Organizational/Organizational Leadership Award
The award was presented at the 2024 LGBTQ+ Health Workforce Conference in New York City.
May 6, 2024
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue announced today that Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians (BNGAP) has selected the hospital's Pride Health Center as a recipient of the Institutional/Organizational Leadership Award. This award recognizes Bellevue's efforts to advance training and education efforts for medical professionals on LGBTQ+ health and healthcare.
This award was presented during LGBTQ+ Health Workforce 12.th Commemorative Conference, May 2-4, 2024 in New York City.
“Bellevue is honored to be recognized for our commitment to LGBTQ patients and our efforts to train the next generation of culturally competent health care providers.” NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue CEO William Hicks. “Our physicians and health care professionals are leaders in providing high-quality, comprehensive care and meeting the health needs of LGBTQ+ patients with dignity and respect. We are proud to receive this well-deserved recognition. “Congratulations to the Health Center team,” he said. “We are thrilled to have been selected to receive the Organizational/Institutional Leadership Award at the 2024 LGBTQ+ Healthcare Worker 12th Anniversary Conference.” Dr. Robert Pitts, Medical Director, NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Pride Health Center. “I am honored to receive this award because it recognizes the important work we do at Bellevue to address equity and provide gender-affirming health care to all of New York City’s LGBTQ communities.”
Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians (BNGAP) helps diverse medical students and residents recognize academic medicine as a career option and provides them with the tools to further explore and potentially embark on a career in academic medicine. It is intended to provide resources. The theme of this year's conference is Create a roadmap to empower the LGBTQ+ health community.
Pride Health Center at Bellevue was founded in 2018 to serve the needs of LGBTQ patients and communities throughout New York City.
“We developed the Pride Center to meet the needs of New Yorkers across the city and provide comprehensive, gender-affirming care to all New Yorkers, regardless of their ability to pay or their national origin.” said Dr. Pitts. “This award exemplifies the outstanding gender-affirming care we provide every day and our commitment to ensuring that all New Yorkers, including queer New Yorkers, can live the healthiest lives possible. It is a proof of promise.”
Pride Health Center in Bellevue is staffed by five primary care providers who see patients every day. The center has a dedicated psychiatrist and clinical pharmacist who see patients for gender-affirming hormone therapy, including estrogen and testosterone, as well as long-acting HIV prevention. The center currently cares for nearly 400 LGBTQ patients, 20% of whom are uninsured, 20% speak a first language other than English, and 80% identify as Black or Latino. ing. Thanks to a series of innovative, empathetic approaches, including clinical trials of long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), no one has become HIV-positive in more than five years of care. Ta.
The LGBT Health Professionals Conference is the largest and most well-known national LGBT health professional conference in the United States, held annually in New York City. This conference will provide an overview of the latest practices (climatic, educational, research, clinical) to prepare healthcare professionals to address health concerns and disparities in the LGBT community. Their mission is to help prepare healthcare professionals to address the health concerns of the LGBTQ community and provide professional development resources to support these goals.
For more information about NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue's Pride Health Center, please visit:
https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/bellevue/services/pride-health-center/.
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