WHAT: The GNYHA/1199SEIU Healthcare Education Project and the Partnership for Quality Care will co-host an Ebola Educational Session for thousands of frontline hospital and other healthcare workers. The event will include national and NYC-area infection control experts, a hands-on demonstration of wearing and removing personal protective equipment, and interviews with healthcare workers, hospital labor and management, and clinicians.
WHO: George Gresham, President, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
Kenneth Raske, President, Greater New York Hospital Association
Arjun Srinivasan, MD, Associate Director for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Programs, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Bernard J. Tyson, Chair and CEO, Kaiser Permanente, and Chair, Partnership for Quality Care
Mary Bassett, MD, MPH, Commissioner, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Howard Zucker, MD, JD, Acting Commissioner, NYS Department of Health
WHEN: Tuesday, October 21, 2014
10:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Javits Center North
West 40th Street and 11th Avenue
New York, NY
The entire educational session will be open to the press.
CONTACT:
1199SEIU
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder
646.413.2223
chelsealyn.rudder@1199.org GNYHA
Brian Conway
917.576.1966
conway@gnyha.org PQC
Derek Renfeld
312.664.7500
drenfeld@akpdmedia.com
The Healthcare Education Project is a joint initiative of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East and the Greater New York Hospital Association to educate the public and public officials about maintaining and supporting New York’s healthcare system and ensuring the continued delivery of high-quality healthcare to all New Yorkers.
The Partnership for Quality Care is a national labor-management coalition committed to ensuring quality, affordable healthcare for everyone in America. It includes public, private, religious, teaching, and non-profit hospitals nationwide and integrated health systems, and the nation's largest healthcare union, SEIU, with more than one million nurses, doctors and healthcare workers. Our members care for more than 50 million patients annually.
WHO: George Gresham, President, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
Kenneth Raske, President, Greater New York Hospital Association
Arjun Srinivasan, MD, Associate Director for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Programs, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Bernard J. Tyson, Chair and CEO, Kaiser Permanente, and Chair, Partnership for Quality Care
Mary Bassett, MD, MPH, Commissioner, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Howard Zucker, MD, JD, Acting Commissioner, NYS Department of Health
WHEN: Tuesday, October 21, 2014
10:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Javits Center North
West 40th Street and 11th Avenue
New York, NY
The entire educational session will be open to the press.
CONTACT:
1199SEIU
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder
646.413.2223
chelsealyn.rudder@1199.org GNYHA
Brian Conway
917.576.1966
conway@gnyha.org PQC
Derek Renfeld
312.664.7500
drenfeld@akpdmedia.com
The Healthcare Education Project is a joint initiative of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East and the Greater New York Hospital Association to educate the public and public officials about maintaining and supporting New York’s healthcare system and ensuring the continued delivery of high-quality healthcare to all New Yorkers.
The Partnership for Quality Care is a national labor-management coalition committed to ensuring quality, affordable healthcare for everyone in America. It includes public, private, religious, teaching, and non-profit hospitals nationwide and integrated health systems, and the nation's largest healthcare union, SEIU, with more than one million nurses, doctors and healthcare workers. Our members care for more than 50 million patients annually.
