Health Care District participates in “Breaking Bread, Breaking Barriers” program to benefit homeless
From left to right: Christopher F. Irizarry, MPA, Vice President and Executive Director of Clinic Services; Rick Roche, Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer; Belma Andric, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer; Darcy J. Davis, Chief Executive Officer; Dawn L. Richards, Chief Financial Officer; Uwe K. Naujak, Resource Coordinator, Homeless Coalition of Palm Beach County; Karen A. Harris, Vice President/Administrator, Edward J. Healey Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; Valerie Shahriari, JD, RN, General Counsel; and Thomas W. Cleare, PhD, MBA, Vice President of Strategy.
Members of the Health Care District’s Executive Team visited the Senator Philip D. Lewis Center in West Palm Beach on Monday, October 3rd where they delivered and served a hot lunch for some 70 homeless residents. The guests enjoyed a lunch of chicken, potato salad, coleslaw, fruit and dessert.
Participating in the “Breaking Bread, Breaking Barriers” program from the Health Care District were: Darcy J. Davis, Chief Executive Officer; Belma Andric, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer; Thomas W. Cleare, PhD, MBA, Vice President of Strategy; Karen A. Harris, Vice President/Administrator, Edward J. Healey Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; Christopher F. Irizarry, MPA, Vice President and Executive Director of Clinic Services; Dawn L. Richards, Chief Financial Officer; Rick Roche, Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer; and Valerie Shahriari, JD, RN, General Counsel.
Health Care District CEO Darcy J. Davis serves lunch to the group gathered at the Lewis Center
Karen A. Harris, Vice President/Administrator, Edward J. Healey Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, with one of the visitors to the Lewis Center
Valerie Shahriari, JD, RN, General Counsel, and Uwe K. Naujak, Resource Coordinator, Homeless Coalition of Palm Beach County, with one of the day's visitors for lunch
The group and guests had an opportunity to spend time together and it proved to be a moving volunteer experience for all involved. The Health Care District partners with the Lewis Center by staffing a C. L. Brumback Primary Care Clinic on site to provide residents access to quality medical services.
The Lewis Center connects homeless individuals in Palm Beach County with housing and access to quality services and referrals with the specific goal of restoring each homeless individual to a self-sufficient and productive lifestyle. Since its opening in 2012, the provider agencies collaborating at the center have assisted more than 28,000 men, women and children in their efforts to end homelessness.
To learn more about volunteering for the lunch service, visit www.homelesscoalitionpbc.org.
The Health Care District of Palm Beach County is a public health care safety net system that provides adult and pediatric medical and dental services at the C. L. Brumback Primary Care Clinics throughout the county, health coverage programs for uninsured residents, a pharmacy operation, a nationally recognized Trauma System, dedicated nurses in nearly 170 public schools, a long-term skilled nursing and rehabilitation center, and acute care hospital services at Lakeside Medical Center, the county’s only public hospital, serving the rural western communities along the southeastern shore of Lake Okeechobee.