June 27th is National HIV Testing Day. Family First Health’s Caring Together program shines a spotlight on the importance of knowing your status and getting tested for HIV.

Family First Health, with the York County Maternal Child Health Community Advisory Board, presents a live event to shine a light on the maternal child health concerns in our communities and the amazing resources and providers right in our own backyard to address these same concerns. We will have speaker from several organizations, GIVEAWAYS, and a Proclamation from York City’s Mayor Helfrich.

In honor of World AIDS Day on December 1st, we hosted a special Community Health Briefing focused on our HIV care program, Caring Together. Jenny Englerth, President & CEO of Family First Health moderated a panel discussion including Caring Together medical provider Dr. Oluwatomi Uwazota, Lead Case Manager Nicole Buchanan, and program patient Julio Rivera.

In the June 18th briefing, Jenny Englerth, President & CEO of Family First Health, spoke with Dr. Marie Kellett, MD Lead at Integrated Service about how a post-pandemic world is affecting us and our children mentally, and how we can identify and work through the challenges of it.

During the December 18th briefing, Jenny Englerth, CEO of FFH, spoke with Dr. Matthew Howie, Medical Director of York City Bureau of Health about the COVID vaccine, including the process that got us to this point, the expected sequencing of distribution, and what you can expect with the vaccine.

Featured this month was a timely discussion about an extremely important topic: Voting. Systemic healthcare change starts with you, so be sure to vote! President and CEO Jenny Englerth hosted the briefing with special guest Thais Carrero, Pennsylvania State Director, CASA.

During the September 24th briefing, Jenny Englerth and Dr. Marie Kellett, Integrated Services Clinical Lead for FFH, have a conversation about Behavioral Health and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic from a Behavioral Health aspect.

Family First Health President and CEO, Jenny Englerth shares an important conversation with Dr. Monea Abdul-Majeed, Racial Justice Coordinator for the YWCA, around systematic racism and how the COVID-19 pandemic has brought some of this to light.

During the July 9th briefing Dr. Hetal Patel talks with Dr. Luis Garcia, both physicians at Family First Health, in more depth about the health disparities they have seen among Family First Health patients, more specifically the Hispanic and Latino populations.

View similar data reported in the NY Times: “The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus”

Family First Health VPs of Dental Drs. LaJuan and Joseph Mountain and CEO / President Jenny Englerth provided updates on the procedures and preventative measures our oral healthcare providers will be following in dental facilities, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as patient treatment resumes. 

The June 11 briefing, led by Jenny Englerth, Family First Health President and CEO, and Dr. Hetal Patel, a Family First Health physician, discussed data gathered from Family First Health’s COVID-19 treatment and testing and provided insight into the patient-provider experiences regarding COVID-19. Among the data released: When a person’s ethnicity is Hispanic or Latino, he/she is five times more likely to have a positive test result. This isn’t due to race alone; risk factors such as high-density housing, high-contact employment and access to nutritional foods all play a role in testing positive for the virus.