Coming soon Pine Street Family Health Center

Photo provided by Assembly Member Kevin Cahills office

(Kingston, NY) – The Institute for Family Health held a ground breaking today for a new community health center in Midtown Kingston. Assemblyman Kevin Cahill was on hand, along with Senator Michelle Hinchey, Mayor Steve Noble and a representative for County Executive Pat Ryan. Institute Chief Executive Officer Neil Calman, MD, opened the event with a brief history of the grounds and background on the development of the new center. In particular, he credited significant private funding for the facility from the Novo Foundation in advancing the project. In attendance and recognized by Dr. Calman was Peter Buffett on behalf of Novo. Also recognized was the late Congressman, Maurice D. Hinchey, Mid Hudson Family Practice founders, Doctors Norman Burg and Dave Mesches, Dr. Mark Josefski and Dr. Walter Woodley and Dr. Marta Sanchez, who will be the Director of the new center. 

“For over 40 years, the Institute for Family Health has been making a tremendous difference in the health and well-being of the people of our region. The leading organization training family practice physicians outside of a large metropolitan hospital setting, the Institute has graduated over 200 primary care doctors and treated hundreds of thousands of local patients. With this new facility, their outreach will expand, more people will have access to care and our community will be further enriched. While buildings are surely important, more than anything else, we look to the doctors and caregivers dedicated to provide quality care,” said Cahill. 

Institute for Family Health operates six locations in the Hudson Valley and several more in New York City where they provide a range of services from prenatal to palliative health care to over 80,000 people a year. The organization treats those without regard to the source or ability to pay and many patients arrive at their doorstep with no insurance at all. 

“The doctors and health care professionals at the Institute are truly on the mission to providing top quality health care to all who need it. I am proud to be a long time partner with these extraordinary caregivers and salute their continued effort assure that these services are available to all. The generous donation of the premises by area physician practices and the collaboration between the Novo Foundation and the Institute for Family Health has made it possible expand that access to the very center of Kingston,” concluded Cahill.

Press Release June 24, 2021 

Assemblymember Kevin A. Cahill Assembly District 103