Does Your Family Need Health Insurance?

Are you need of health insurance for your family? The Rockland County Department of Health can help thanks to funding from New York State.

“The Rockland County Department of Health’s Facilitated Enrollers can help most uninsured children gain free or low cost health insurance through Medicaid or Child Health Plus," said Dr. Joan Facelle, Rockland County Commissioner of Health. "They can also help eligible adults, ages 19 through 64 with limited income, sign up for free health insurance, such as Family Health Plus or Medicaid.”

These programs make available key medical services such as:

• Regular checkups
• Immunizations
• Dental visits
• Eye exams/eyeglasses
• Prescription drugs
• Laboratory tests
• Hospital
• Dental care

Bilingual assistance is available for members of the community whose primary language is either Spanish or Creole.  Services can accessed by visiting any of these locations during their business hours:

• in Pomona at the Robert Yeager Health Center, Building J, at 50 Sanatorium Road: Monday - Friday 9:00 am -12:00 pm
• in Nyack at the Nyack YMCA, 35 South Broadway:  Mondays 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
• in Haverstraw at the Haverstraw Center, 2nd Floor, 50 West Broad Street: Wednesdays 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
• in Spring Valley at the Louis Kurtz Civic Center, 9 North Main Street: Thursdays 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm

For more information about Child Health Plus, Family Health Plus and Medicaid, call the Health Department at 845-364-3312 or visit www.rocklandgov.com/health.  For additional information about health and human services offered by the state please visit www.mybenefits.ny.gov.