Open Door Renames School-Based Health Centers In Honor Of Congresswoman Nita Lowey   The Open Door Family Medical Center’s School-Based Health Center Program will become known as the Nita M. Lowey Center for Health in Schools. The program provides primary health care services for students in elementary, middle and high schools in Port Chester and Ossining. Services are available regardless […]

Two months after being closed, the Port Chester School District reopened its doors. The reopening was certainly good news for the county’s first village to be designated as a code orange cluster zone. A well-coordinated collaboration among the county and state departments of health, the Port Chester School District, and the Open Door Family Medical Center’s […]

Local high school student launches imaginative crowdfunding campaign to support Open Door. “A nation cannot claim economic, technological, and moral leadership when its own citizens are dy­ing due to a lack of affordable care.” These words could be attributed to a U.S. President, but 16-year-old Sumer Moudgill wrote them in an article titled “Answering Corona’s Call,” published […]

Meet Open Door Board Members Daysi Briones and Anita Suchdeo. DAYSI L. BRIONES As President and Owner of IQ Contracting, Inc. & Associates, Daysi Briones is a seasoned general contractor and real estate agent for residential, commercial, private and public sectors. Before starting her business, Briones spent seventeen years as a certified HIV counselor and medical administrator for hospitals […]

Open Door is a founding member of OCTC. Ossining Communities that Care (OCTC) brings together diverse community partners and organizations to foster well-beingamong Ossining’s young people and their families, with a special focus on substance use prevention and positive youth development. The new website is the go-to resource for community members to access educational resources, support, and up-to-date information about OCTC’s programs and youth-oriented activities. Open Door’s Community Programs Coordinator Alice Joselow serves as […]

According to a December survey by the Pew Research Center, nearly 40 percent of Americans say they will definitely not or probably not get the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available to them. This is a significant finding, yet it is the overwhelming number of people of color living in underserved communities that most concerns […]