Community Voices in New York has begun a local advocacy campaign to raise State and City-wide attention of the 2.2 million uninsured New Yorkers.  On Wednesday, May 4th, in partnership with the Generations+/Northern Manhattan Health Network (Gen+) and Community Premier Plus, Community Voices hosted an insurance enrollment drive and had an informational booth on best practices to reduce the rank of the uninsured.

Gen+ is the largest network within New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), the municipality’s public hospital system. Affiliated with Columbia, Cornell, and New York University Medical Schools, Gen+ includes Harlem, Lincoln, and Metropolitan hospitals, Renaissance network, and the Morrisania, and Segundo Ruiz Belvis Family health centers. With a mission of providing quality care with dignity and compassion, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, religion, or ability to pay, Gen+ serves Northern Manhattan, Harlem, and the South Bronx.

Community Premier Plus, Inc. (CPP) is a not-for-profit Medicaid managed care health plan whose mission is to provide high quality, culturally appropriate health services to medically underserved and uninsured populations. Founded in 1996, CPP is sponsored by and closely collaborates with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the Generations+/Northern Manhattan Health Care Network of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. CPP serves over 70,000 Medicaid managed care, Child Health Plus, and Family Health Plus enrollees in Manhattan and the Bronx. CPP was ranked number one in quality and patient satisfaction among all Medicaid managed care plans in New York State in 2004.