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Gentrification as a Public Health Crisis panel discussion
February 8, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$25
Join us for a panel discussion and community dialog around preserving the culture of Bayview Hunters Point from gentrification, and bringing health and wellness to San Francisco’s largest community of African Americans. Come with your suggestions for how to protect Bayview from gentrification and the loss of our historic residents and unique culture.
Watch this amazing video to learn more about Dr. Coleman and the Bayview Hunters Point community.
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Thursday evening, February 8, 2018
6:00 Drinks and hors d’oeuvres
6:30 Welcome and short 10 minute film to introduce the work of the Bayview Hunters Point Clinic
6:45 Presentation about Gentrification and how it affects the African American/Black community
7:00 Panel discussion with JayVon Muhammad, CEO of Bayview Hunters Point Clinic, and other leaders in healthcare, committed to African American/Black health and social equity, including:
– Sheila James, Public Health Advisor
– Mary Ann Jones, Westside Community Health
8:00 Q&A with audience, including your suggestions for SF Mayoral candidates on how to stop gentrification
This event launches a quarterly series. For more information, please contact [email protected].
Discussion on Gentrification, Racism, Poverty and Health Disparities
Gentrification is breaking down community and family supports as historic residents are priced out of the neighborhood where they (and their parents and grandparents) have lived. Poverty makes people sick, and the trauma related to poverty and displacement caused by gentrification has created a public health crises. JayVon Muhammad, a Bay Area native has seen the displacement of families caused by gentrification. As CEO of the Bayview Hunters Point Clinic, a branch of the Marin City Health and Wellness Center, located in the historic Arthur Coleman Medical Center, she and her staff work every day to achieve African American health equity.
Honoring Dr. Coleman’s Legacy
The Bayview Clinic celebrates the heritage of Dr. Arthur Coleman, Bayview’s first African American physician, who served this community for more than 50 years. In 1960, Dr. Coleman purchased the building at 6301 Third Street (at Ingerson). His vision: Black doctors, dentists, ophthalmologists, pharmacists and midwifes would provide wraparound healthcare for residents of this historic African American neighborhood. Sadly, last year this historic building was lost in a tax lien sale. Now the Arthur H. Coleman Medical Center is owned by a real estate investor from Marin, with no knowledge or concern about this historic center for Black health equity. This event helps raise funding and awareness to restore the building and expand healthcare services for Bayview Hunters Point residents! As a Federally Qualified Health Center, we serve patients with Medi-Cal, Denti-Cal, Medicare, private insurance and sliding scale payment, with a focus on low-income and residents of public housing.
With your support, the Arthur H. Coleman Medical Center may be considered as a historically important building by San Francisco’s Historic Preservation program. Receiving historic designation by the City will not only recognize a building that is culturally important to the African American community, but serves as an ongoing tribute to the life’s work of Dr. Coleman by helping to keep this medical building for Dr. Coleman’s beloved neighborhood.
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