WHO:
Speakers: Borough President Helen Marshall; City Councilmember Helen Sears; Queens Library Director Thomas W. Galante; Dr. Robert Wittes, Physician-in Chief of Memorial Hospital; Alan Aviles, President of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation; Don Distasio, CEO of the American Cancer Society, Eastern Division; Anthony Tassi, Director of New York City Office of Adult Education
Guests: Tony Martin, Executive Director of Queens Hospital Center; Ann Sullivan, Senior Vice President of Queens Health Network
Entertainers: Jazz Band of Renaissance Charter School, Jackson Heights
WHAT: Launch of Queens Library HealthLink Initiative
WHEN: Wednesday, January 17, 2007, from 11:00am-12:00pm
WHERE: Queens Library at Jackson Heights, located at 35-51 81st Street in Jackson Heights.
*** MEDIA AND PHOTO COVERAGE IS INVITED***
DETAILS: This new initiative is a five-year, nearly $2 million dollar federally-funded collaboration among Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the American Cancer Society's Queens office, the Queens Library and the Queens Cancer Center of Queens Hospital.
The goal of this project, initiated by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, is to improve access to cancer screening and care in underserved communities The Queens Library HealthLink services will make available a Queens Health Network mobile cancer screening van that will visit community libraries; supply American Cancer Society educational programming at community libraries; provide free or low-cost cancer screening services through the New York State Healthy Living Partnership and furnish access to cancer treatment at the Queens Cancer Center regardless of ability to pay or immigration status.
The Queens Library HealthLink will: