Fort Greene Association Meeting - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:30pm

Fort Greeners,

The Fort Greene Association is proud to announce our next Open Meeting entitled:The Future of Health Care: Are you covered?

The meeting which is to be held at the grand South Oxford Space of ARTNY, 138 South Oxford Street on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 7:30PM with a "Meet your Neighbor Mixer" starting at 7PM. Light refreshments will be served. - Speaker list subject to change.

At the June 10th meeting guest speaker Dr. Oliver Fein, an advocate for single-payer healthcare, will trace the history of health care in our nation; from charity hospitals for the poor, to the linking of health benefits to employment during World War II, to the present-day dominance of the private for-profit health insurance industry. He will analyze the costs of private health care. He will compare health outcomes of other industrial nations, all of whom have guaranteed health care, with the outcomes in the United States. Be there, your health depends upon it.

Dr. Fein is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he serves as Associate Dean responsible for the Office of Affiliations and the Office of Global Health Education. Dr. Fein has advocated for an expanded role for primary care and for academic health centers in urban health care delivery systems. He was Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow during 1993-1994, where he worked in the office of Democratic Majority Leader George Mitchell. He is immediate past vice president of the American Public Health Association.

GROWING OLD IN FORT GREENE:
FGA Member, Beverly Emmons will describe a new pilot program being initiated with the help of the FGA, Good Neighbors of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

Good Neighbors is a membership 501c3 organization being fostered by the Fort Greene Association whose purpose is to help keep people in their own homes as long as possible.

Modeled on an organization founded 8 years ago in Boston, called Beacon Hill Village, Good Neighbors arranges to offer its members, primarily through third party providers, many of the activities and services available to residents of conventional high quality retirement communities. [Wall Street Journal Nov 15-16 2008]

ALL THIS AND ALL THE GOINGS ON IN FORT GREENE

All are welcome, owners and renters alike

Got an issue you need to voice? Sign up for our OPEN MIC. Speak-out - Be heard.

The Future of Health Care: Are you covered? - Open to all

When: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 7:30PM

Where: South Oxford Space of ARTNY, 138 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

For further information please the Fort Greene Association at
email: theFGA@HistoricFortGreene.org
web: www.HistoricFortGreene.org

Serving Greater Fort Greene,
Fort Greene Association

The Fort Greene Association, Inc., operates as a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization.