Open Door was awarded three Digital Health Awards by the Health Information Resource Center (HIRC) for its “Grown Ups Show Up!” (GUSU) campaign, which launched in December 2021. The awards recognized excellence in the development of digital public health messaging directed to support adults to start conversations with teens about avoiding drugs and alcohol. Open Door […]

June is Family Health and Fitness Month, and Open Door Family Medical Center is kicking off different healthy living programs for both patients’ families and their own families. Open Door will offer 30 patients, prenatal women, and caregivers and parents of children up to the age of five years old the chance to participate in […]

An HIV diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. This is what Karin Palencia-Lua, Raul Rodriguez, Alexander Rodriguez and Guadalupe Ramos, the HIV Care and Prevention Team, at Open Door Family Medical Center, continually stress to patients when they test positive for the virus. “We tell them that nowadays they can live a long, healthy […]

June is Men’s Health Month, a good time to talk about the health of those men in your life. Below, Dr. Daren Wu, Chief Medical Officer of Open Door Family Medical Center, answers questions about men’s health and the reluctance many men seem to have in seeking health care. 1. Have you found that men are […]

The first-ever School-Based Health Center (SBHC) in the mid-Hudson Valley Region opened this month, as the result of a collaboration between Open Door Family Medical Center and the Webutuck Central School District. The grand opening ribbon cutting, held May 14th, celebrated this partnership which will bring easy access to regular, high quality, evidence-based health care […]

Open Door partners with organizations in the communities we serve to deepen the impact of our services. This article features a longstanding important relationship between Open Door Family Medical Center and Family Services of Westchester as both organizations work to address significant mental health challenges faced by patients in local communities. Behavioral health therapists at […]