Sunset Park Health Council Inc

“Effective july 1, 2007 ("effectlve date"), lmc transferred the operations of the health center to sunset park to comply with the requirements of the health resources and services administration (within the united states department of health and human services) in order to maintain eligibility for a federal section 330 grant ("330 grant") sunset park has its own independent governing board responsible for the entire scope of operations and finances for the health center nevertheless, pursuant to the affiliation agreement between nyu hospitals center and sunset park sunset park health council, inc. 20-2508411 health council, inc (d/b/a family health centers at nyu langone), nyu hospitals center is permitted to appoint one board member to the sunset park health council, inc board of directors.”

“A full copy of the irs form 990 and corresponding schedules will be distributed to the entire board via e-mail prior to filing and will request questions/comments on line or via phone. In addition, the entire document will be further reviewed by audit committee as well as the full board.”

“The organization has adopted a written standards of conduct applicable to board members, officers, employees and agents that establishes procedures for, among other things: (i) disclosing, and addressing conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflicts of interest by board members, officers, employees, and/or agents who provide services or furnish goods to the corporation, (ii) maintaining the confidentiality of information obtained by a board member, officer, employee, and/or agent by virtue of his or her position as such, directly or indirectly related to the organization's administrative, managerial and clinical operations, (iii) prohibiting the acceptance or solicitation of gifts or gratuities of substantial monetary value, and (iv) addressing violations of the standards of conduct. Furthermore, the has established policies with respect to conflicts of interest by board members, officers of the corporation and such other persons. All officers, directors, trustees and key employees are required to disclose annually interests that may give rise to conflicts. The department of corporate compliance distributes and reviews these documents on an annual basis. For board member, the conflict of interest forms are distributed annually and reviewed by the executive committee.”

“The board of directors of sphc (d.b.a. Family health centers at nyu langone), through its executive committee, engages sullivan cotter and associates, inc to provide annual executive compensation services. Sullivan, cotter and associates provides sphc's board with a report that includes: 1) market analysis of the total compensation levels of senior executives in relationship with their peer in the marketplace, 2) a review of current compensation and benefit plan designs to ensure their competitiveness to the marketplace, and 3) to ensure compliance with any state or federal regulations the board relies upon the data and recommendations provided by sullivan cotter and human resources to determine the compensation level of the ceo. For other positions, the ceo & svp of human resources recommends adjustments to the board of trustees based on data and recommendations from sullivan cotter. This process is done annually and the last one done was in december of 2023.”

“The organization's financial statements, governing documents and conflicts of interest policy are available to the public upon request and at the discretion of sphc's (d/b/a family health centers at nyu langone) general counsel.”

“Sunset park health council, inc. (d/b/a family health centers at nyu langone) (lfhc) continues to build on its fifty-nine year history as the primary provider of ambulatory health care services for underserved communities mostly in southwest brooklyn. Since its founding in 1967, fhc has grown to become one of the nation's largest, most comprehensive federally funded community health center networks. In 2024, post covid pandemic, fhc delivered care to 173,272 patients in over 1,023,141 patient visits, including 207,933 virtual visits. Of fhc's users, 52.6% live in households with incomes less than 100% of the federal poverty level; 49.4% receive medicaid; and 21.8% are uninsured; 30.9% are best served in a language other than english. The health resources and services administration (hrsa) of the united states department of health and human services recognized fhc for its local impact and national leadership in 2008 by awarding the organization the first-ever distinguished health care.”

“The mission of the family health centers at nyu langone is to improve the overall health of the communities it serves by delivering high quality, culturally-competent primary car, and related services within community-based settings.”

“Dentistry: fhc operates one of the largest and most comprehensive dental programs of any community health center in the country. Seven of fhc's health center sites include comprehensive dental clinics, operating a total of forty+ dental operatories. In 2024 total, fhc's 56.01 dentists and 10.54 dental hygienists provided general dentistry and specialty care to 43,451 patients in 135,310 visits in 2024. The range of services provided by fhc's department of dental medicine is extensive. Dental anesthesiologists, for example treat select patients under conscious sedation in the dental clinic. Candidates for such care range from children with handicapping conditions, anxiety, patients with behavioral management problems, and referrals from community agencies for special care patients. In conjunction with the school health program and head start programs, dental staff visits the schools to identify children with dental needs. Children who do not have a dentist are offered treatment at fhc facilities. Patients who cannot be treated in the usual outpatient setting are cared for on an inpatient/ambulatory surgery basis by dental attendings that have admitting privileges at nyu langone hospitals center (brooklyn campus). The fhc department of dental medicine, in partnership with nyu langone hospitals center, is the educational sponsor of seven american dental association commission on dental accreditation accredited dental residency training programs. For three decades, fhc has forged partnerships with chcs throughout the country as a strategy to increase access to care by placement of full-time residents in extramural practice settings for one or two years of advanced clinical training. This is consistent with the mission of fhc in its role as an institution without walls, which provides a means of increasing access and assuring equity in oral health care for community residents and the underserved. Over a year of training, a general dentistry resident will provide approximately 1,500 patient visits. Community health centers (chc) and indian health services (ihs) throughout the country have searched for relief from chronic dental workforce shortages occurring in urban and rural geographic areas. These have been a resource for ameliorating workforce shortages in chcs who have developed a service-learning environment within the dental center and offered the residents alternative dental practice and career pathways. Long term data of where fhc graduates currently practice indicate that close to 30% remain in practices caring for underserved and vulnerable populations. Fhc, at its brooklyn sites, accounts for over 135,000 visits annually and well over 650,000 visits at its extramural training partnerships. These visits are to the most vulnerable in the country and those with least access to care. The fhc program alone is a significant resource that serves to maintain and grow the oral health safety net of the nation. The fhc department of dental medicine has a long history of training dental residents. The department has piloted the use of distance learning technology in its residency training, linking primary care and extramural training sites in several states listed below. The program enables qualified dentists to allay workforce shortages in some of the nation's most isolated communities, while receiving advanced didactic training of the highest quality via live video teleconferencing. The general practice residency began in 1974, the advanced education in general dentistry (aegd) in 1988, the advanced specialty education in pediatric dentistry in 1994, the advanced specialty education in endodontics in 2004, dental anesthesiology in 2008, advanced specialty education in periodontics in 2012, and orofacial pain in 2012, dentalpublic health in 2014 and orthodontics in 2015. The programs have grown from 2 residents in brooklyn to 400+ residents assigned to chc and ihs service units throughout the united states. Currently, the geographic”

“Mental health: in 2024, fhc provided 154,609 mental health related visits to 13,615 patients with a team of over 168.11 psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, interns and other mental health staff. Fhc's sunset terrace facility health center (stfhc) provides intake assessment, crisis intervention, individual and group psychotherapy, marriage and family counseling, and psychiatric services for adults, adolescents and children. The facility's community support services; psychosocial program provides culturally competent and linguistically appropriate mental health support services to severely mental ill patients. A staff of licensed mental health providers includes professionals who are fluent in spanish, mandarin, cantonese, italian, urdu, hebrew and yiddish. The sunset terrace mental health program also offers a child/adolescent and families track, a geriatric track, a seriously mentally ill track, a trauma-focused track, and a track for child sexual offenders (project second try) who are referred by the courts. The child/adolescent and family clinicians are all trained in short-term therapies (i.e., cbt) and therapeutic play therapies. Some of the instruments or assessment tools utilized by these clinicians include the wisc-iv, sentence completion, tat, temas, bender gestalt and the connors scale. The stfhc provides several evidenced-based treatments for adults (cbt, dbt and wellness self management). Stfhc also operates the healthy connections clinic, a clinic that was created post-911 with a primary mission of working with patients with current traumas or histories of trauma, domestic violence victims, crime victims and other types of abusive relationships or histories. The stfhc also offers a comprehensive track for patients with co-occurring disorders, who have both a mental illness and a substance abuse problem. The co-occurring track offers outpatient opiate detox and maintenance (suboxone) treatment. Patients requiring inpatient detoxification for drugs or alcohol are referred to local inpatient detox unit and patients that require emergency or inpatient psychiatric are referred to nyu langone hospitals center (brooklyn campus) inpatient psychiatric unit for care. Counseling and referral services are provided by our substance abuse counselor who offers drug and alcohol abuse education through one-to-one discussion with patients and through group meetings. Patients are screened to determine substance use disorders. In addition, fhc sends teams of licensed social workers, substance abuse workers, case managers and psychiatrists to provide behavioral health and related support services to homeless individuals through its community medicine program, a network of 12 shelter-based clinics throughout new york city. In 2024, fhc provided 19,550 mental health visits to 4,395 individual homeless users through this program. In addtion, due to covid, our demand for telehealth services in this area skirocketted. In 2024, we had 106,855 which is more than double the regular face-to-face visits.”

“School health. In 2024, fhc provided services at 95 nyc public schools. We offer primary care, dental and behavioral health services. In total, fhc provided 99,027 visits in school health clinic sites school health primary care: as health clinics licensed and regulated by nysdoh, school based health centers (sbhcs) are required under such agency's rules and regulations to provide a certain scope of services to the students served by the sbhc. Those services loosely align with the primary and preventive care services provided by fhc under its health center program. Our providers and services include screening, diagnosing, and treatment of children and adolescents. In addition, in our middle and high schools, we provide reproductive health services. We partner with the nycdohmh to ensure that all of our high school providers are trained to provide long acting reversible contraception (larc) to our students. School health dental: the school based dental program encompasses 49 sites and 62 individual primary and middle schools across all 5 boroughs of nyc with a service area of more than 27,000 students. Comprehensive dental care including preventive, restorative and emergency care is provided to all students that are enrolled in the program. School based behavioral health: the school based behavioral health program encompasses 27 sites spanning brooklyn and queens serving over 1000 children annually. Our behavioral health clinicians conduct screenings and psychosocial assessments for students referred for treatment. They provide specific interventions to ensure that students' social and emotional needs are addressed. There is also access to off-site psychiatric services and referrals to various social services agencies in the community.”

“Website: https://nyulangone.org/care-services/family-health-centers-at-nyu-langon e”