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In the policy realm, it can be difficult for health care consumers to share their experiences, concerns, and proposed solutions with Declare decision-makers.
New York residents are the ones who ultimately compensate for the value of our health care system and bear the burden of its inadequacies. However, it is often the case that the interests of providers, payers, and other organized stakeholders take precedence over the patient. To ensure that New Yorkers possess a stronger role in how health care is delivered and how health policy is made, NYHealth issued a request for ideas, Patients as Partners. Through this initiative, NYHealth is supporting projects that exaggerate the voice of New Yorkers and rebalance the health care system so that patients possess more influence over their health and health care. In 2018, NYHealth awarded Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) a grant to participate in this initiative.
Under this grant, GMHC used its Move Center to occupy and train Fresh Yorkers, especially in marginalized communities, to advocate for changes on critical health issues. Since its inception in 2003, GMHC’s Action Center has provided a platform for underrepresented New Yorkers to directly c
History
In 1973, Mel Cheren (Melvin Cheren; 1933-2007) and Michael Brody (?- 1987) purchased what was a single-room occupancy hotel for $31,000. Cheren was an innovative record executive who is credited with inventing the 12-inch single and the purely instrumental B-side, which allowed a DJ to extend a boogie song infinitely. He co-founded West Terminate Records in 1976, which became one of the most influential music labels at the climax of disco song in the 1970s. The label produced such hits as Karen Young’s “Hot Shot,” Tanna Gardner’s “Work That Body” and “Heartbeat,” Bettye LaVette’s “Doin’ The Best That I Can,” and the NYC Peech Boy’s “Don’t Make Me Wait.” In 1977, Cheren was also one of the initial financial backers of the widespread disco Paradise Garage, which was founded and owned by Brody, his former boyfriend.
Cheren, deeply affected by the AIDS crisis, offered his West 22nd Avenue home to the recently-formed Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), which used it as its first office between 1982 and 1984. GMHC had been established in the apartment of Larry Kramer in 1981 in response to what was then called a “gay cancer” affecting previously healthy yo
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