At the Whitney Young Health Family Festival & Duck Dash on Saturday, June 29th, we are pleased to present our first ever DUCK DASH!
The Duck Dash is a fundraising rubber duck race. Below are details on how to purchase your ducks for the race. You do not need to be present at the festival to…
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Whitney Young Health to Host Family Festival & Duck Dash in Troy
In celebration of the opening of the newly-relocated Troy Health Center, Whitney Young Health is hosting a Family Festival on Saturday June 29th, at the new Troy Health Center (849 2nd Avenue, Riverside Plaza in Lansingburgh) from 11:00am – 3:00pm. Please join us in this fun-filled day of games, prizes, food and drinks, music from…
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How Whitney Young Health is Celebrating Pride Month
Whitney Young Health wishes all those a part of the LGTBQ community and their supporters a happy Pride Month! We are proud to be a sponsor of the following events below during Pride Week. We hope to see you there!
Saturday, June 8th: In Our Own Voices’ Say It Loud! Health & Wellness…
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Celebrating National Nurses Week
A message from Gina Picarillo, MSN, RN, CPN, Director of Nursing at Whitney Young Health. During National Nurses Week, I would like to extend a special thanks to all of Whitney Young Health’s nurses, as you continue to provide the highest level of quality care to your patients. You deserve special recognition for all your…
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Community-Based Programs Hosts Asthma Lesson at Albany Elementary School
Our Community-Based Programs team had a great time teaching 1st graders at Giffen Memorial Elementary School about lung function and how having asthma affects them. After the lesson, the children, with the help of our interns from the UAlbany School of Public Health and nursing students from The Sage Colleges, made a set of lungs that showed…
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Celebrate National Donate Life Month with Whitney Young Health
April is National Donate Life Month (NDLM) and this year’s theme was inspired by bicycles and the phrase “Life is a beautiful ride. Like the donation and transplantation journey, a bicycle serves as a symbol of progress, renewal and the moving circle of life. Join Whitney Young Health in celebrating “Donate Life Blue & Green…
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Give Back to Whitney Young Health This Holiday Season
Now is your chance to end 2018 on a good note by making someone else’s new year start off on the right foot. Whitney Young Health prides ourselves on providing affordable healthcare to over 20,000 patients, many of whom are children. Every gift, no matter how large or small, truly does makes a difference. Your…
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Support Whitney Young Health with Barnes & Noble’s Holiday Book Drive
If you’re getting your holiday shopping done Colonie Center this year, don’t forget and stop by Barnes & Noble to support their Holiday Book Drive that benefits Whitney Young Health’s pediatric patients. All you have do is go to the store and purchase a book you’d like to donate to our organization. The book drive…
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MVP Donates Winter Coats to Whitney Young Health’s Patients
Thank you to the MVP Health Care team for donating over 75 men, women and children coats towards our annual Coat Drive. Part of this donation went to new refugee families, whose children will be attending theAlbany International Center at North Albany Academy. Our mobile health unit, Whitney on Wheels, visits the school twice a month to provide primary care…
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Whitney Young Health Celebrates 2018 Legacy Event
Whitney Young Health hosted its annual fundraiser on Thursday, September 20 at Revolution Hall in Troy. The Legacy Event is an annual fundraiser that celebrates healthcare change-makers in the community who help advance the health center’s mission of providing quality affordable healthcare to medically under-served residents of the Capital Region.
This year’s Living the Legacy Award recipient was Virinchi…
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