Open Door Family Medical Centers Launches "Learn and Live" Social Media Campaign to Promote Health and Wellness

Open Door Family Medical Centers, the largest federally qualified community health center in Westchester and Putnam Counties, recently launched “Learn and Live”, a social media campaign designed to promote health and wellness. “Learn and Live” will focus on a new health issue every month, providing expert advice and information from Open Door as well as providing additional resources for information from respected sources like the Centers for Disease Control, American Heart Association, and the American Diabetes Association.

“Open Door has been the medical home to communities throughout Westchester for the past 40 years and we recently opened a health center in Putnam County. Our mission is to ensure that everyone, regardless of their ability to pay have access to the best medical care available. Educating our patients and communities plays an important role in empowering them to take control of their health and wellness,” said Lindsay Farrell, MBA, FACMPE Open Door’s President & CEO. “Today people are bombarded with so much confusing information about how to stay healthy on the web and through social media. They need a trusted resource who can make sense of it all. We are that resource for our patients and we want to be that resource to all of our communities. ‘Learn and Live’ will allow us to reach more people through our social media channels, giving us the opportunity to make access to information as easy as we have made our access to medical care.”

People can follow the “Learn and Live” campaign by joining Open Door’s Facebook and Twitter communities and searching the hashtag #LearnAndLive. In the coming months “Learn and Live” will focus on a variety of health and wellness topics including: stress awareness (April); asthma and allergies (May); keeping children active and safe in the summer (June); Lyme’s Disease and skin protection (July); vaccine requirements and school physicals for children, and National Health Center Week (August); diet and exercise, Farmer’s Markets, and wellness (September); breast cancer awareness (October); protecting yourself and your family from the flu (November); and AIDS awareness (December).

For more information about Open Door Family Medical Centers visit http://opendoormedical.org.

About Open Door Family Medical Centers
Open Door, winner of the 2012 New York Nonprofit Excellence Award, has received the highest Recognition as a Patient-Centered Medical Home™ (PPC-PCMH™) from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). This ranking distinguishes Open Door from medical practices across the nation as less than 12% have appropriate systems in place to achieve this advanced standing. For more than 40 years, this federally qualified community health center has served a multi-cultural community providing top quality medical, dental care and social services to the people in Westchester and Putnam counties, particularly the economically disadvantaged. Open Door has centers located in Ossining, Port Chester, Mt. Kisco, Sleepy Hollow and Brewster. In addition, Open Door operates five school-based health centers in Port Chester at The Edison Elementary School, Park Avenue School, the John F. Kennedy Elementary School, Port Chester Middle School, and Port Chester High School, and one school-based health center in Ossining High School. In 2014, 52,860 patients were treated at Open Door, making 233,697 patient visits. In the same year, 16,020 youth and children (ages 19 years and under) were treated. In the same year, 15,235 youth and children (ages 19 years and under), were treated. In 2012 Open Door, partnered with New York Medical College and Phelps Memorial Hospital Center, to launch the NYMC Phelps Family Medicine Residency Program along with a Dental Residency Program, the first new programs in New York State in decades. Funding for Open Door Family Medical Centers comes from local, state and federal grants as well as private foundations and individuals.