NYC recruiting health coaches to boost wellness of public housing tenants

NY Post ^ | 11/26/2023 | Carl Campanile

[ChicagoConservative27]

Mayor Eric Adams’ medical team is ramping up a program to bolster wellness in public housing by recruiting “health coaches” to work with residents inside the city’s major public housing projects.

The Health Department is accepting bids to fund the expansion of the Health Advocacy Partnership program in the New York City Housing Authority-run Marcy Houses in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Butler Houses in the Morrisania neighborhood of The Bronx and the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, Queens.

The program offers tenants screening and workshops to help them better control chronic diseases such as asthma, hypertension, diabetes, and provides assistance with stress management and smoking cessation.

[ChicagoConservative27]

The department stressed the health coaching program builds on its work “to eliminate health inequities, which are rooted in historical and contemporary injustices and discrimination, including racism.

BARF

[exPBRrat]

Why not spend the money on civilizing/socializing the amish?

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Wonder how many social media health influencers are going to sign up?

[bobbo666]

Losers gotta work somewhere. And, this is that buffoon’s way of channeling taxpayer $$ out (whilst skimming his 10%) and then taxing it back.

[juggernaut]

I thought NYC was broke....

[pas]

This is just closet body shaming which NYC is against.

[Bob434]

No no- the o ly thing that will help them is more and more and more $$ for drugs and alcohol

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Whacking the police budget is going to have severe health effects that this won’t begin to. Dead bodies. Severely wounded bodies.

[silverleaf]

Fat camps?

[Obadiah]

They keep spouting this absurd lie about health inequities, contemporary injustices yet never, ever cite any specific empirical examples or evidence. How about people use any government money they receive on their, you know, health and that doesn’t include spending money on pot. Yeah, a lot more fun buying $1k iPhone rather than paying a doctor bill, but that’s what the rest of us do.

[Gay State Conservative]

So...$80K a year to tell people “be healthy”. I could go for a job like that.

[Gay State Conservative]

I worked for years for a large,very famous,hospital. Our patients came from everywhere...including half way around the world (I saw Saudi royalty in the hallways many times),the city's affluent suburbs to right down the street at the huge,largely black and Hispanic,public housing complex.

I never saw the poor blacks or Hispanics ever treated with less fervor or determination than the rich suburbanites.

[bert]

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink

You can coach a public housing tenant but you can’t make him think

Inequality can’t be cured

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”Losers gotta work somewhere. “

What credentials are required to be a healthcare coach?

Are they liable for malpractice?

Smells like a rat stew.

[aquila48]

When will they also hire butt wipers?