Prevention & Wellness

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. On Wednesday, March 13, 2024, Open Door partnered with Cancer Support Team, Cancer Services Program of the Hudson Valley, and Family Services of Westchester to present “Mantengase Informado” (“Stay Informed”) at Ossining Open Door.  This free seminar, which was presented in Spanish, addressed the importance of understanding the signs and […]

On Thursday, March 7, Open Door celebrated National Nutrition Month and this year’s theme of “Beyond the Table” with a live cooking demonstration at our Sleepy Hollow site. Our WIC staff, who are Registered Dietitian Nutritionists cooked a delicious, nutritious vegetable stir fry for attendees to enjoy.   We thank our staff and participants who

  In honor of Breastfeeding Week, we would like to share two stories from our WIC staff. Gina Devito: The beauty of working at Open Door, says Gina Devito, is that she can often see the difference – both short- and long-term – she makes in her patients’ lives. For nearly a decade, Gina has

Free nutrition education, referrals, breastfeeding support, counseling, and healthy foods are available to low-income families through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, commonly known as WIC. However, historically, only about 50 percent of those in New York State who are eligible take advantage of it.  Open Door Family Medical Center, in

The Fight Against HIV PrEP, which stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis, has been a game changer in the fight against HIV. The pill has been shown to be up to 99 percent effective in preventing HIV. Yet, earlier this month, a federal court judge in central Texas ruled in favor of a Christian-owned company that argued

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