The Reporter: February 1996, Vol.7, No.1
It's Official: GWHS's Health Clinic Opens

George Washington High School's health clinic finally had its grand opening after providing medical and mental health services to approximately 2,000 students since November 1994. The clinic is one of five New York City school-based programs run in collab oration with Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Health Sciences, and the Community Health and Education Program (CHEP) of the Center for Population and Family Health. The grand opening celebrated the clinic's renovated facility and allowed student s and local politicians the opportunity to tour the space and learn more about its offerings.

The clinic's goal is to provide primary health care to students who might not have other options due to financial or logistical constraints. In addition to routine health care, the clinic provides prenatal care, sports medicine, AIDS education, and menta l health services. CPMC health care providers staff the clinic.

Those involved in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the George Washington High School health clinic, front row from left, were Beverly Colon, assi stant director for clinical and program operations, Community Health and Education Program of the Center for Population and Family Health; Sandy Dulitz, chairman of Community Board 12; the Honorable Stanley Michels, city councilman; the Honorable Guillerm o Linares, councilman; Lorraine Tiezzi, assistant clinical professor, School of Public Health; Euclid Mejia, George Washington High School principal; the Honorable Brian Murtaugh, New York State assemblyman; Moises Perez, executive director of Alianza Dom inicana; and Mario Gonzalez, student council president. Also at the ceremony and pictured in the background were Helen Morik, director of government/community affairs for Presbyterian Hospital; Jayson Fansler, special assistant to the chancellor; and Cesa r Perales, senior vice president of community health services for Presbyterian Hospital.