Hospital Workers Attend Meeting on Pre-Event Smallpox Vaccination Program
Right: On January 23, 2003, more than 1,500 members of 1199/SEIU, New York's Health and Human Service Union, participated in a meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in NYC to obtain basic information about smallpox and to hear up-to-date information about NYS's and NYC's plans to implement the Federal government's smallpox pre-event vaccination program. The Healthcare Education Project, a joint initiative of GNYHA and 1199/SEIU, sponsored the meeting.


Left: 1199/SEIU delegates heard presentations from Guthrie Birkhead (second from right), M.D., M.P.H., Director of the NYS Department of Health's Center for Community Health, and Joel Ackelsberg (far right), M.D., M.P.H., Director of the Communicable Disease Program Emergency Response Unit at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. GNYHA President Kenneth E. Raske (at podium) and George Gresham, Secretary-Treasurer of 1199/SEIU, moderated the discussion. Dozens of health care employees participated in a Q&A session with the expert panel, which included Stephen Baum, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center; Audrey Adams, R.N., M.P.H., C.I.C., Infection Control Manager at Montefiore Medical Center; Tony Napoli, Sr. VP of Human Resources at Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers; Michela Catalano, M.D., Director of Occupational Health Services at Montefiore Medical Center; Ruth Smith, M.D., Director of the Personnel Health Service, Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers; Susan Waltman (third from right), Sr. VP and General Counsel at GNYHA; and Bruce McIver (fourth from right), President of the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes of New York.

 
 

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