Since 1993, PCDC has

been transforming
healthcare in underserved
communities throughout
New York and beyond.
Reform is not a luxury
that can be postponed.

President Barack Obama

Invest… PCDC provides the
capital to build new facilities,
expand practices, and upgrade
outmoded equipment, leading to
better services for more patients.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Center

Morrisania

Replacement Facility
Capacity: 85,000 visits annually
PCDC’s financing allowed
us to create a welcoming
environment for our
patients and a better
workspace for our
employees.
Suzanna Callahan
Institute for Urban Family Health
 Swine Flu Preparedness

PCDC has helped 70 health

centers prepare for the Swine
Flu emergency.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Hudson Headwaters
Warrensburg Health Center
Warren County

after

before

Facility Expansion
Capacity: 14,000 visits annually
 43% of NYS health centers
lost money in the last 7 years.
- The Deteriorating Financial Health of New York State’s Health
Centers: PCDC, NYS Health Foundation
 Primary
care
strengthens
families
and
communities.
 PCDC has afforded us the
opportunity to create an
effective response to various
types of emergencies and states
of readiness.

Pat Troy
Deputy Executive Director
Betances Health Center
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

New York Hospital Queens

Downtown Flushing Center

Replacement Facility & Expansion

Capacity: 14,000 visits annually
PCDC is helping 35 community
health centers choose their
Electronic Health Record.
 The uninsured are much
more likely not to get
preventive care because they
can’t afford it…when they
get sick, they get sicker.

Jennifer Tolbert
Kaiser Family Policy Analyst
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Institute for Family Health

Walton Family Health Center
Morris Heights/Tremont

New Facility
Capacity: 16,000 visits annually
 Uninsured people who
live near a health center
are less likely to postpone
or delay care.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Open Door Family Medical Center

Port Chester Center

Facility Relocation & Expansion

Capacity: 46,500 visits annually
The PCDC project has been a work-
intensive, guided, and overall
worthwhile experience that has
totally changed our way of thinking
about handling community
emergencies.

Zach Rosen, M.D.

Medical Director
Montefiore Family Health Center
 There are too many neighborhoods,
especially in low-income and isolated
areas, where you can’t find a primary care
doctor or a full service clinic anywhere.

New York City Council Speaker

Christine Quinn
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Premier HealthCare
Bayside Health Center
Bayside, Queens

New Facility
Capacity: 28,000 visits annually
More doctors in a
community leads
to declines in
mortality from
cancer, stroke,
heart disease,
and infant
mortality rates.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Comprehensive Care Management

CCM/PACE Allerton Center
Fordham

New Facility
Capacity: 5,000 visits annually
Strengthen… PCDC works
with providers to implement
patient-centered approaches that
strengthen their practice and
improve and expand care.
PCDC is developing tools
to help providers meet
Patient Centered Medical
Home standards.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Schenectady Family Health Services

Main Center
Schenectady County

Replacement Facility & Expansion

Capacity: 60,000 visits annually
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Hudson River HealthCare

Monticello Center
Sullivan County

Facility Acquisition
Capacity: 17,000 visits annually
 Preventing illness is a good
investment. It saves taxpayer
money, improves patient
care,
and unburdens our
economy.

Governor David A. Paterson

PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

ODA Primary Care Health Center

Greenpoint

Facility Renovation
Capacity: 75,000 visits annually
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Bedford-Stuyvesant
Family Health Center
Bedford-Stuyvesant

Replacement Facility & Expansion

Capacity: 78,000 visits annually
 PCDC has attracted nearly $6 in
outside investment for every $1 in
public funds received.

Financing for PCDC projects

Raised by
health
centers:
Public $44M (18%)
financing:
$37M (15%) Private
financing:
$170M (67%)
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Oak Orchard
Community Health Center
Brockport Center & Dental Van
Monroe County

New Facility & Dental Van

Capacity: 6,250 visits annually
We’re not producing enough
primary care physicians. The
costs of medical education
are so high that people feel
they’ve got to specialize.

President Barack Obama

PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Urban Health Plan

Main Center
Hunts Point/Mott Haven

Replacement Facility & Expansion

PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Family Health Network of Central NY

Cortland Dental Center
Cortland County

Replacement Facility
Capacity: 4,500 visits annually
 The PCDC Learning
Collaborative on Primary Care
Emergency Preparedness has
enabled us to move our hospital
based preparedness program
beyond the walls of the hospital
and into the community.

Joan Sclafani
Associate Administrator
Brookdale Family Care Centers. Brooklyn
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Lutheran Family Health Centers

Brooklyn-Chinese Family Health Center
Sunset Park

New Center
Capacity: 11,000 visits annually
PCDC not only provided us with the
financing to help our organization
grow, but they stood by us through
every challenge along the way.

Stephanie Howze
Deputy Director
Harlem United
PCDC thanks our generous Silver
Sponsors who have made this
evening possible

Emblem Health
PCDC thanks our generous Silver
Sponsors who have made this
evening possible

Greater New York Hospital

Association / GNYHA Ventures
PCDC thanks our generous Silver
Sponsors who have made this
evening possible

Anna Deluca & Andrew S. Roffe

PCDC thanks our generous Silver
Sponsors who have made this
evening possible

Louise and Michael A. Stocker, M.D.

PCDC thanks our generous Silver
Sponsors who have made this
evening possible

Ingegerd & Louis R. Tomson

PCDC strongly supported
reforms in the New York
State budget that
increased payments for
primary care providers.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Medisys Family Care Centers

Medisys – St. Alban’s Center
Queens

New Center
Capacity: 71,000 visits annually
 The demand for neighborhood-based
primary care exceeds the capacity of many
centers to provide it.
 PCDC has created 6,600
construction jobs and 2,200
permanent jobs in low-income
communities.
Primary care providers are critical to their
communities in a time of emergency.
 The U.S. is expected to lose
46,000 primary care doctors by
2025.
PCDC cut in half the time a patients
spend in waiting for care.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Betances Health Center

Lower East Side

Renovation & Expansion

Capacity: 19,000 visits annually
Building primary care centers
transforms long-vacant,
deteriorated buildings into
thriving facilities.
 About 60 million
Americans lack access to
primary care nationwide.
 New York health centers
have an average of only 16.5
days of cash on hand.

- The Deteriorating Financial Health of New York

State’s Health Centers: PCDC, NYS Health Foundation
 This whole experience has been great for us.
Not only do we have an Emergency
Preparedness manual now and a much more
prepared organization but we have become an
even closer TEAM.

Settlement Health
 Community health centers
generate $12.6 billion in
economic activity annually and
produce 143,000 jobs.
 New York ranks 39 th

nationally in avoidable
hospital use and cost and
spends $1.1 billion on
avoidable ER visits.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Brownsville Multi-Service
Family Health Center
Genesis Health Center
East New York

New Center
Capacity: 13,500 visits annually
 Half of U.S. primary care
doctors plan to reduce or end
their practices.
Lack of capital impedes primary
care development.
This collaborative will make us
better community partners
and has given staff an increased
sense of empowerment when
faced with the possibility of
catastrophic disaster.
Pat Troy
Chief Operating Officer
Betances Health Center
More than 5 million New Yorkers live in
high primary care need zip codes.
 Lack of capital investment
prevents hiring and retention of
a qualified primary care
workforce.
 PCDC led nine Brooklyn test
sites to develop a replicable and
adaptable Electronic Medical
Record implementation model.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Housing Works
Brooklyn & Manhattan

Developed Three New Centers

Combined Capacity: 2,400 visits annually
 The process that PCDC helped us
put in place is a shining example of
how far teamwork, buy-in, and
inclusive planning can take us.

Wendy Stark
Executive Director
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
 Lack of investment hampers
modernization of health centers,
including adoption of health
information technology.
 New York ranks 1st in
overall Medicaid spending
th
– but 45 in Medicaid
spending on primary care.
Only 2% of medical students
plan to go into primary care.
PCDC thanks our generous Supporters who have made
this evening possible

Amerigroup

Karen Binder & Victor Ney

BTQ Financial

Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center

Isabella Geriatric Center

Kenneth Schwartz
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

CPANYS
Linda Buch-Gerardi Center
East Flatbush

New Facility
Capacity: 22,000 visits annually
PCDC offers comprehensive
financing options, such as
pre-construction loans
long term loans
target loan funds
tax exempt bonds
new market tax credits
bridge loans
PCDC has invested a total
of $240 million for 77
health center projects
throughout New York
state.
PCDC helps providers transform the way
they deliver care and conduct business.
PCDC thanks our generous Donors
who have made this evening possible

AMDeC Foundation, Inc.

Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center
Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D.
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
James Capoziello
Cerebral Palsy Association of New York State
Cicero Velazquez Cicero & Associates
Michael E. Clark
Andrea Colon
Community Health Center of Buffalo
Mark Dorfman
EastPoint Health
The Engelberg Foundation
Gouverneur Healthcare Services
Housing Works
Hudson Health Plan, Inc.
Hudson River Healthcare, Inc.
IJR Consulting Corporation
The Institute for Family Health
JPMorgan Chase
Lisa & Mark Jeziorski
Ronda & David Kotelchuck
PCDC thanks our generous Donors
who have made this evening possible

Maimonides Medical Center

Daniel T. McGowan
Diane & Ira Millstein
Thomas J. Murphy
New Broadway Manor Assisted Living LLC
New York Cardiovascular Associates
New York State Health Foundation
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
Victoria Palermo
RCHN Community Health Foundation
RSM McGladrey
Howard J. Rubenstein
Mark Rubinstein
John Rugge, M.D.
Ruth Salzman
James Sinkoff
Diana L. Taylor
United Hospital Fund
Urban Health Plan
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Fredda W. & Bruce C. Vladeck
William F. Ryan Community Health Center
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Settlement Health
Harlem

Replacement Facility & Expansion

Capacity: 50,000 visits annually
 Specialists earn 2 to 7
times more than primary
care doctors.
 About 1.5 million New York
State residents depend on health
centers for primary and
preventive care.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center

Main Center
The Rockaways

Replacement Facility & Expansion

Capacity: 69,000 visits annually
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Harlem United
Central & East Harlem

Developed Two New Centers

Combined Capacity: 30,000 visits annually
 PCDC projects have
created capacity to serve
550,000 additional patients
annually.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Callen-Lorde
Community Health Center
Chelsea

Relocation & Expansion

Capacity: 48,000 visits annually
PCDC has helped 70 primary
care centers double their
emergency readiness.
 PCDC earned a AAA Impact
Performance Rating from the
Community Development
Financial Institution
Assessment and Rating System
(CARS).
90% of PCDC’s investment goes to
facilities in areas of high
unemployment, high poverty, and
low income.
New York Health Centers are
underpaid for services
by 15-30%.

- The Deteriorating Financial Health of New York State’s Health

Centers: PCDC, NYS Health Foundation
PCDC has decreased patient average wait
times for appointments from 21 days to
less than a week.
PCDC is a founding member of
the Primary Care Health
Information Consortium
(PCHIC).
1 in 3 low-income adults
have activity limitations
due to chronic illness,
compared to 1 in 10
among higher income
adults.
 Primary care provides crucial services
known to lower healthcare costs, improve
outcomes, and reduce health disparities.
 PCDC is part of
the Emblem Health
High Value Medical
Home Project.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

Community Healthcare Network

Helen B. Atkinson Health Center
Harlem

New Facility
Capacity: 23,000 visits annually
PCDC was selected from among 86
applicants as a
semi-finalist for the
New York Times Nonprofit
Excellence Awards.
 PCDC thanks the NYS
Assembly & NYS Senate
for their strong support of
PCDC and primary care.

We extend our gratitude to

Assembly Health Chair Dick
Gottfried, and Senate Health
Chair Tom Duane
PCDC has reduced patient no-shows
by 67%.
PCDC CAPITAL PROJECT

UNITE HERE Health Center

Chelsea

Renovation
Capacity: 169,000 visits annually
New York’s budget made
landmark investments in
primary care, including
medical home incentives.
 Health costs for adults with a
primary care physician are 33% less
than for those without.
Nearly 75% of health care
spending goes to chronic
diseases that can be
prevented or managed
with quality primary care.
PCDC extends our heartfelt
thanks to New York City
Council Speaker Christine
Quinn &
The New York City
Council
for their strong support of
PCDC and primary care.
 Medicaid costs for New
York community health
center patients were 24%
less per case overall, and
36% lower for diabetics.
PCDC has worked with more than
300 health center teams to
implement effective, patient-
centered care models.
Lead…PCDC leads policy efforts
to strengthen and expand primary
care in underserved communities.
PCDC is a founding member of the
Primary Care Coalition.
 PCDC thanks the members of the Gala Dinner
Committee who have made this evening possible:

Alan D. Aviles Daniel T. McGowen

Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D. Wanda Marzan
Sean Birney Thomas J. Murphy
Stanley Brezenoff Lee H. Perlman
Pamela Brier Seth Pinsky
Georganne Chapin Kenneth E. Raske
Richard Cotton Andrew S. Roffe
Tom Early John Rugge, M.D.
Lindsay Farrell Claire Shulman
Wendy Goldstein Harvey Sigelbaum
Reinaldo M. Gonzalez Elizabeth Swain
Paloma Hernandez James R. Tallon
June Keenan Diana Taylor
Deborah King Bruce C. Vladeck, M.D.
Kathryn Wylde