Renee Hastick-Motes, new CEO of Joseph P. Addabbo Household Well being Middle.
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The Joseph P. Addabbo Household Well being Middle (JPAFHC) not too long ago introduced Renee Hastick-Motes’s appointment as its new chief government officer, efficient Jan. 6, 2025.
JPAFHC mentioned it’s a Federally Certified Well being Middle (FQHC) that’s “positively reworking value-based care in underserved communities.”
For properly over a decade, JPAFHC mentioned it had offered providers in 5 areas in Rockaway, Southeast Queens, and Brooklyn.
The middle mentioned Hastick-Motes—the daughter of the late Grenadian-born Dr. Roy Hastick, the president and founding father of the Brooklyn-based Caribbean-American Chamber of Commerce and Trade (CACCI)—” brings over twenty years of strategic management in healthcare administration, authorities relations, neighborhood advocacy, and organizational improvement.”
JPAFHC mentioned Hastick-Motes, who holds a grasp’s diploma in public administration from Lengthy Island College, joins the middle from Episcopal Well being Providers, Inc. in Far Rockaway, Queens, the place she served as senior vp and chief exterior affairs officer, and founding president of the St. John’s ICARE Basis.
“Her visionary management was instrumental in securing multimillion-dollar grants, establishing transformative packages, and driving well being fairness initiatives,” JPAFHC mentioned.
Board Chair Glenn Greenidge mentioned: “We’re thrilled to welcome Renee as the brand new CEO of the Joseph P. Addabbo Household Well being Middle.
“Her dedication to neighborhood well being, historical past of innovation, and deep understanding of healthcare dynamics align completely with our mission to offer accessible, high-quality healthcare to underserved populations,” he mentioned.
Hastick-Motes mentioned she was “deeply honored and excited” to turn out to be the Joseph P. Addabbo Household Well being Middle’s new CEO.
“This can be a pivotal second for the neighborhood we serve, and I’m dedicated to constructing on the unimaginable work already being performed,” she mentioned.
“Along with the Board of Administrators, our devoted crew members, and the neighborhood at giant, I stay up for advancing well being fairness, fostering innovation, and strengthening the influence of our mission within the lives of the individuals we serve,” Hastick-Motes added.
JPAFHC mentioned that, all through her profession, Hastick-Motes has “demonstrated distinctive capabilities in strategic planning, philanthropic management, and fostering significant collaborations with stakeholders.
“Her accomplishments embody spearheading well being fairness agendas, launching a system-wide Affected person Navigation and Care Coordination Program, and creating partnerships that amplify neighborhood influence,” it mentioned.
As “a revered thought chief and educator,” Hastick-Motes can be an adjunct professor at Hofstra College’s Lawrence Herbert College of Communications and an advocate for ladies’s management, who’s finishing the NYS Board “Fellow” Certification, the middle mentioned.
JPAFHC prides itself in being “a pillar of the neighborhood for over 43 years,” offering complete healthcare providers to residents of Queens and past.
With Hastick-Motes on the helm, the middle mentioned it’s “poised to increase its attain and deepen its influence on the communities it serves.”
“By rising entry to reasonably priced healthcare, strengthening provider-patient relationships, and utilizing know-how to foster remedy accuracy, we proceed to be one of many main FQHCs in NYC,” JPAFHC mentioned.
“Our mission is strengthened each day by our dedication to range, fairness, and inclusion,” it added, stating that its scientific providers embody Grownup and household observe medication; behavioral and psychological well being; dental providers; pediatric providers; and ladies’s well being providers – OB/GYN, household planning/contraception, allergy/bronchial asthma, persistent illness administration, infectious illness administration, vitamin, podiatry, endocrinology, disabilities, on-site laboratories and pharmacies specializing within the 340B program.
The middle additionally supplies free testing providers – HIV testing, being pregnant testing, dental screening, and breast most cancers screening; and social providers – WIC, Well being Insurance coverage Entry, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Coordination, and LGBTQ+ Help Care Middle.
“We welcome sufferers from Brooklyn, Jamaica, Queens, Far Rockaway, Arverne, Purple Hook, Rockaway, Inwood, Lengthy Island and neighboring communities,” JPAFHC mentioned.