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1983 |
The
Institute for Urban Family Health is established
as a nonprofit organization and opens its first office in
the Bronx. The organization is incorporated in 1985.
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1984 |
The
Institute receives a grant to open the Faculty Development
Program in Urban Primary Care to train future health
care leaders in administration, educational theory, and precepting
skills, and to increase the number of family physicians teaching
in urban areas.
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1985 |
The
Institute opens the Bronx-Lebanon Department of Family
Medicine and the Bronx-Lebanon Residency
in Urban Family Medicine and Ambulatory Care
Unit at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital. It is the second
family medicine program in the Bronx.
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1986 |
The Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union selects the Institute to assume management of the union's Sidney Hillman Health Center at 16th St. in Manhattan. Our administrative offices move to 16th St.; the health center is renamed the Sidney Hillman Family Practice and is staffed by family physicians and family nurse practitioners.
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1990 |
Care for the Homeless funds our Healthcare for the Homeless Project. We provide medical care, social services, HIV outreach and health education at churches, shelters, and transitional residences in Manhattan.
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Bronx-Lebanon
Family Practice Center opens, followed by Crotona
Park Family Practice and MBD Family Practice. The Institute operates these programs until 1999.
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1991 |
In
1991, the Institute makes an organizational commitment to
develop small health centers in partnership with community-based
organizations, using the family practice model of care. From
1993 to 1998, five health centers open: Parkchester
Family Practice, built in collaboration with the
Bronx Health Plan; Mount Hope Family Practice, built with the Mount Hope Housing Company; East 13th
St. Family Practice, located in the Genesis Apartments
near Union Square, and built in concert with the H.E.L.P.
organization; Urban Horizons Family Health Center, developed with the Women's Housing and Economic Development
Corporation (WHEDCO) and Bronx United Sisterhood Together;
and Walton Family Health Center, built with
the St. Edmund Episcopal Church and the Primary Care Development
Corporation.
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The
Institute becomes the New York office of the National
Family Practice Education Program. The program, which
runs through 2000, offers guidance to students interested
in becoming family physicians who are studying at medical
schools without a department of family medicine.
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1992 |
The Institute receives the first of four Ryan White CARE grants. Currently, the organization receives both Ryan White Title I and Title II funds to offer services to patients with HIV and AIDS and their caregivers. The program, called COMPASS, offers comprehensive medical, mental health, and social services.
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1993 |
The
Institute’s President, Neil Calman, MD, receives the Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership
Award, and later, the PEW Charitable Trust
Primary Care Achievement Award and the Public
Health Award of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
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From
1993 to 1997, the Institute operates the first Area
Health Education Center (AHEC) Program in New York
State. The program expands opportunities for community-based
clinical training and encourages youth from disadvantaged
backgrounds to learn about and pursue careers in health. In
2000, the Institute again becomes a lead organization in the
AHEC system (see 2000).
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1994 |
The
Institute joins with Beth Israel Medical Center to open the Beth Israel Department of Family Medicine. The Beth Israel Residency Program in Urban Family
Practice enrolls its first residents; Phillips
Family Practice, the training site for the residency
program, opens at the Institute’s 16th St. building.
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1995 |
A formal Department of Social Services is created with four social workers. Since then, the department's staff has grown to include social workers, health educators, and case managers as well as numerous interns.
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An Organizational Diversity Committee is established.
The committee develops diversity training workshops that
are mandatory for all staff.
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1996 |
Yvonne Eisner, RN, C, FNP, vice president for nursing and quality assurance, is one of ten advanced practice nurses nationwide to be honored with the Pfizer/APNSCAN Award for Exceptional Contributions to Health Care. |
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The Institute receives a license to operate its own Medicaid managed care plan, ABC Health Plan. In 1997, ABC Health Plan becomes an independent corporation jointly owned by the Institute and Beth Israel Medical Center. The company is sold in 2005.
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The
Institute is a key participant in the Bronx's successful bid
for the prestigious All American Cities Award.
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1999 |
Medical
students from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s
Community Health Outreach program partner with the Institute
to open the Walton Free Clinic to serve the
growing ranks of the uninsured. In 2002, the NYC Free
Clinic opens at the Sidney Hillman Family Practice
in Manhattan. New York University medical students worked
for three years to develop the clinic and obtain funding.
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The Institute receives a REACH 2010 (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reduce racial disparities in health outcomes in diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the southwest Bronx. The Institute leads Bronx Health REACH, a coalition of faith-based, community, and healthcare organizations.
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2000 |
The
Institute is selected by the New York State Area Health
Education Center System to serve as New York
Metropolitan Regional Office. Over the following
three years, the Institute helps develop three local AHEC
offices: Bronx-Westchester AHEC, Brooklyn-Queens-Long
Island AHEC, and Manhattan-Staten Island AHEC. The AHECs promote diversity in the healthcare workforce and service in underserved communities.
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From 2000 to 2006, The Institute and Continuum Health Partners contracted to form Continuum Family Practice Management, which assumed operation of six health centers formerly operated by HIP of New York.
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Urban
Horizons Family Health Center is the first Institute practice
to receive community health center funds under the federal PHS
330 Program; soon after, all Institute practices
receive 330 designation.
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2001 |
We receive a three-year Community Access Program grant from HRSA to develop an integrated health care delivery
system for the uninsured through implementation of an electronic
medical record system and increased patient access to health
insurance and specialty care.
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2002 |
The
Institute becomes the first free-standing health facility
in New York State to implement an electronic medical
record system throughout its network, leading the
way to extensive collaboration with the New York City Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene's Primary Care Information
Project, Syndromic Surveillance System, and Take
Care New York Initiative.
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The Institute, in collaboration with the Beth Israel Department of Family Medicine, opens the Washington Irving High School Health Center.
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2003 |
Walton Family Health Center’s Dental Department opens in the Bronx. |
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2004 |
Our seven health centers receive JCAHO (Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) certification.
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The
Institute's seven health centers receive JCAHO (Joint
Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)
certification.
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Five-hundred Bronx residents go to Albany with Bronx Health REACH to share REACH’s Statewide Advocacy Agenda to eliminate racial disparities in health with 92 state legislators.
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2005 |
The
Institute and Bronx Health REACH release a monograph titled "Separate and Unequal: Medical Apartheid in New
York City" at a press conference attended by 300 people at Bronx Borough Hall.
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The Institute and its Bronx Health REACH partners receive a grant from the NIH National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities to study the success of its faith-based outreach initiative to eliminate racial disparities in diabetes.
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2006 |
The
Institute, Bronx Health REACH, and its sister program, Bronx
Healthy Hearts, celebrate the success of the Bronx "1%
or Less" campaign, resulting in a decision to
eliminate whole milk from public school cafeterias citywide.
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Dr.
Neil Calman wins the prestigious 2006 Physician's
Information Technology Leadership Award, presented
annually by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems
Society.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg visits the Institute to announce funding to expand health information technology in primary care centers in New York City.
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The Institute acquires three health centers formerly
operated by St. Christopher's Inc.: Amsterdam
Center in Manhattan; and Westchester Avenue
Center and the River Center for Counseling in the Bronx.
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2007 |
We receive an Article 31 license from the New York State Office of Mental Health to provide counseling service at the River and Westchester Avenue health centers. |
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The Institute acquires the Mid-Hudson Family Health Institute, adding six health centers in Dutchess and Ulster counties, a residency training program in Kingston, and several community outreach programs to our network. |
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We change our name to The Institute for Family Health to reflect service to communities outside of New York City.
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The Institute receives the 2007 Davies Public Health Award from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The award is for outstanding use of electronic health record systems to improve safety and quality of care for our patients, and for improving public health through our participation in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Syndromic Surveillance program.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates the Bronx Health REACH project a National Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities (CEED).
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The Institute receives funds from the Human Resources and Services Administration to provide patients with internet access to their own health records using MyChart, produced by Epic Systems.
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Our partnership with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Columbia University is designated a Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
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