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Paul

Ramos

(1941-2000)

Who was he?

A staunch advocate of affordable health care and social justice. As founder and Executive Director of Betances Health Center, Paul worked tirelessly on behalf of the people of the Lower East Side - and beyond - to meet the desperate need for accessible quality health care and social services. Paul founded Betances in 1970, and initially ran the agency out of a makeshift office above a pickle factory, delivering health services from a mobile medical unit. Largely through Paul's determination and hard work, Betances found a permanent home on Henry Street in the Lower East Side, one of New York City's most diverse immigrant communities, where it has become one of the leading comprehensive primary care facilities serving poor and low income community members. Paul guided Betances' accomplishments and status as an early provider of "culturally competent, holistic" care long before the terms became buzzwords over the center's four decade history. Over the center's three decade history, many came to see Paul as a modern day incarnation of the agency's namesake, Ramon Emeterio Betances, a 19th century Puerto Rican physician and poet known as the "Father of the Poor", who received a medical degree in Europe and then returned to Puerto Rico to found a hospital, defend the island against a cholera epidemic,

PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS

Bina Berkovich

Craig Metroka

Dennis Peng

Maria Cellario

Diane Rhoden

Ania Atioubelli

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Bina Berkovich, PA

Family Medicine

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Maria Cellario, MD

Pediatrics

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Pamela Roberts, MD

Podiatry

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Patrick Perkins

Arturo O'Farrill

David Garza

Brian Jones

Betty Nadby, LCSW

Social Work

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Pamela Roberts

Betty Nadby

Craig Metroka, MD

Internal Medicine & HIV Specialist

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Diane Rhoden, MD

Family Medicine (Bushwick)

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Thai Phong, MD

Podiatry

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Rita Pabon

Mildred Zeno

Linda Harrison

Michael Hall

Thai Phong

Jane Draimin, LCSW

Social Work

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Jane Draimin

Dennis Peng, DDS

Dentist

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Ania Atioubelli, DDS

Dentist

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Renata Shiloah, RD

Nutrition

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Renata Shiloah

Elmer Castro

Sandy Luo

Santos Rivera

Efrain Candelaria

This health center receives HHS funding and has Federal Public Health Service (PHS) deemed status with respect to certain health or health-related claims, including medical malpractice claims, for itself and its covered individuals.

For more information, see http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/ftca

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This health center receives HHS funding and has Federal Public Health Service (PHS) deemed status with respect to certain health or health-related claims, including medical malpractice claims, for itself and its covered individuals. For more information, see http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/ftca