Mayor Adams Publicizes COVID-19 Restoration Roundtable and Well being Fairness Job Pressure

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NEW YORK – New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams as we speak introduced his administration’s COVID-19 Restoration Roundtable and Well being Fairness Job Pressure, a fee, unprecedented in its range, to advise the administration on long-term, complete insurance policies round well being fairness and well being entry. The job pressure is made up of roughly 40 leaders from all kinds of sectors, recognizing that to be efficient, the duty pressure should embrace a large vary of voices whose sectors, taken collectively, are instrumental in a speedy, efficient restoration. The duty pressure will even construct a more healthy, stronger, and extra equitable metropolis for all New Yorkers. The duty pressure will meet month-to-month over the subsequent 12 months.

“We can’t construct a simply and affluent restoration for all New Yorkers with out bringing collectively and listening to specialists and neighborhood leaders from throughout town,” mentioned Mayor Adams. “The COVID-19 Restoration Roundtable and Well being Fairness Job Pressure brings not solely the very best minds collectively to construct a speedy restoration, however a long-lasting one. I’m grateful to the co-chairs and members for bringing their time and concepts to town as we work in the direction of this shared aim.”

“I’m thrilled to have leaders from each nook of New York Metropolis as a part of our COVID-19 Restoration Roundtable and Well being Fairness Taskforce,” mentioned First Deputy Mayor Lorraine Grillo. “Thanks to everybody who has joined this effort, I’m trying ahead to rolling up our sleeves and attending to work growing long run insurance policies to information our metropolis by a simply and equitable restoration.” 

“Assembling a bunch of leaders, advocates, and practitioners from 11 totally different fields, starting from the incapacity neighborhood to the tech sector and the faith-based neighborhood will yield an inclusive dialog on how we can proceed on town’s path to an equitable restoration,” mentioned Deputy Mayor for Well being and Human Companies Anne Williams-Isom. “We look ahead to an engaged, sustained, and productive dialogue with the duty pressure in service of constructing a stronger and extra equitable metropolis for all New Yorkers.”

The COVID-10 Restoration Roundtable and Well being Fairness Job pressure will be co-chaired by:

• Dr. Ramon Tallaj, chairman of SOMOS Group Care, a nonprofit of about 3,000 medical doctors serving about 900,000 Medicaid-reliant sufferers citywide and an immigrant himself.
• Dr. Wayne Riley, chair, Board of Trustees, New York Academy of Drugs and president, Downstate Well being Sciences College. College Hospital was designated as a COVID-only hospital in the course of the peak of the pandemic and is amongst New York’s most impactful instructing hospitals and analysis amenities.
• Pat Kane, govt director, New York State Nurses Affiliation (NYSNA). NYSNA represents over 42,000 frontline well being care employees.
• Melba Wilson, whose famend eatery, Melba’s, is a Harlem establishment and an icon of New York Metropolis’s beleaguered hospitality business.

“Eric Adams made a promise to convey preventive care to the streets and neighborhoods of New York Metropolis that want it essentially the most – and with this announcement he has stored that promise,” mentioned Dr. Ramon Tallaj, chairman, SOMOS Group Care. “The mayor has finished this by uniting neighborhood medical doctors, leaders from main hospitals and caring New Yorkers from a various vary of industries and organizations behind a long-lasting COVID-19 restoration, and a lasting dialog round well being fairness that represents and advantages all New Yorkers. We look ahead to growing and asserting a restoration plan that builds again the social cloth of town, particularly for poor and dealing communities.”

“As frontline nurses we have now seen the devastating results of a deadly pandemic on communities throughout town,” mentioned Pat Kane, RN, govt director, New York State Nurses Affiliation. “Uneven assets undercut the basics of fairness governing entry to well being assets in our metropolis. Looking for long-term well being fairness is vital to enhancing the general public’s well being. We significantly admire and thank Mayor Adams for the chance to affix with various stakeholders in a COVID-19 Restoration Roundtable and Well being Fairness Job Pressure, a much-needed effort to guard the well being of all New Yorkers.”

“I commend Mayor Adams for bringing collectively such an esteemed panel of leaders and specialists to assist information his administration’s efforts to advance New York Metropolis’s COVID Restoration,” mentioned Wayne J. Riley, M.D, president, Downstate Well being Sciences College. “The general public well being, financial, arts and recreation, schooling, hospitality, tourism, and workforce prowess of town is critically essential to making a thriving ‘new regular.’ The previous two years have illuminated the shortcomings of our well being care programs and public well being infrastructure, significantly for our most susceptible New Yorkers. We now have a possibility to study from our experiences, errors, and successes. I’m humbled to serve and contribute to this progressive COVID-19 Restoration Roundtable and Well being Fairness Taskforce, and am inspired by the mayor’s deep dedication to getting this proper.”

“The restaurant business is the beating coronary heart of our metropolis,” mentioned Melba Wilson, proprietor, Melba’s. “I’m honored to be a co-chair of the Restoration Roundtable and stay optimistic that New York, the best metropolis on the planet, will rebound stronger than ever!”