Quality Healthcare in Our Community

QUEENS CHAMBER MEMBER NEWS

Quality Healthcare in our community

By George Onuorah

EMU Health, a multi-specialty outpatient medical facility in the Glendale section of Queens, NY, has partnered with Rothman Orthopedic Institute, a global leader in the treatment of musculoskeletal issues. This new affiliation is the latest step by EMU Health in pursuing its stated goal to continue to elevate the level of health care available to the previously underserved Queens community.

“Rothman Orthopedic specialists will now be seeing patients at EMU Health in Queens,” explained Daniel Lowy, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of EMU Health. “This move will bring further highlevel quality care to patients and their families in our greater Queens area.”

“We are really excited about the continued growth of Rothman Orthopedic Institute in the New YorkCity market,” said Alexander R. Vaccaro, MD, PhD, MBA, President of Rothman Orthopedic

Institute, Richard H. Rothman Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics, and Professor of Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospitals.

“Partnering with EMU Health will provide patients in this region access to some of the best orthopedic providers in theworld, and we look forward to bringing the best musculoskeletal care to the Queens community.”

This affiliation with Rothman Orthopedic represents the latest initiative by EMU Health to continue growing its world-class medical and patient care offerings in Queens, through recruitment of eminent physicians as well as broader collaborations with other leading medical organizations and entities.

“Our vision at EMU Health is to provide all residents of the various communities in queens with the highest quality medical and surgical services," said Efrat Yaish, Chief Clinical Executive and Principal at EMU Health. Yaish noted that this new affiliation with Rothman Orthopedics is another significant step in pursuing that vision, enabling EMU Health to further expand its resources and services in the realm of musculoskeletal subspecialties, consultations, diagnostics, treatments, and surgeries.

“When selecting a health partner, it is important that the goals, values and vision of patient care are perfectly aligned,” said Christopher T. Olivia, MD, CEO of Rothman Orthopedic Institute. “EMU Health is an ideal partner for their commitment to bringing high-quality orthopedic services to the communities, the very principles Rothman Orthopedics was built on.”

“Making a positive difference in the community has been a key imperative in the founding and growth of EMU Health,” Lowy added, “and we’re proud to feel that our Glendale home is not only bringing an expanding set of worldclass medical care to Queens families, but is emerging as a leading medical treatment destination across the entire NYC Metro area.”

About EMU Health:

EMU Health is a five-year-old multi-specialty outpatient medical facility under article 28, consisting of an ambulatory surgery center (AAAHC accredited) and a specialty care center consisting of orthopedics, general surgery, women's health, interventional radiology & cardiology. Since its inception, the facility has strived to make worldclass medicine locally available to Queens residents, and continually recruits top physicians from around New York City to bring their talents to the Queens community.

For information or to reach our specialists:

Phone: 718-850-4368

Email: appointments@ emauhealth.com

Dr. George Onuorah is the co-founder of Our World Media, a print and digital magazine of editorial and political commentaries, articles, essays and interviews. He wrote the book “The Political Diary of a Rising Son”

QUEENS CHAMBER MEMBER NEWS Healing Generational Trauma Begins with Healthy Young Minds

By William Weisberg, Ph.D., Executive Director, Forestdale Inc.

The events of the pandemic have brought upon us unprecedented times where our resilience – as individuals and as a society – has been tested. This resilience is paramount in determining how one will thrive following such devastation and loss. While we recognize the atrocities of loss and grief have been known to mankind throughout the course of human existence, we also know that the mark of such trauma can be life-changing, triggering anxiety, fear, hopelessness, anger, frustration, resentment, and pain. Thriving beyond trauma requires a hope for better. However, oftentimes, it is not without a lot of effort that individuals remain hopeful in the midst of oppressive circumstances. Additionally, oppressive circumstances – particularly over an elongated period – can impact the structure of the brain and central nervous system. This altered biological structure can exist in one’s genes and be passed along to the next generation.

Generational trauma is the idea that descendants of a person who has had a threatening experience may show the adverse emotional and behavioral response to the experience, similar to those of the ancestor who experienced the event. Behavioral responses may include shame, anxiety, guilt, depression, substance abuse, difficulty with attachment to others, and more. Initial research concentrated on descendants of survivors of the Holocaust and Japanese-American internment camps. However, the concept has now broadened to include indigenous populations and communities of color in American society.

The impact of a traumatic event that adversely affects one’s cognitive and emotional well-being can be inherited for three or more generations. Healing from trauma in the present offers benefits beyond one’s lifetime, preventing the potential transmission of emotional dysregulation to one’s descendants.

How does healing happen?

To heal trauma is to create a safe space where trust can be reinstated. Safe spaces that are geographical and relational offer the opportunity to heal from trauma. Unpacking the trauma, the underlying reason, and how to prevent recurrence is also healing.

Creating safety for oneself is the foundation for healing and resiliency. One’s ability to process a past trauma, understand the experience, and protect oneself from more adversity is the crux of how one recovers from what occurred and begins to trust, engage, and thrive again.

The process of recovering from trauma can occur with guidance from trained professionals who understand human cognition and emotion. Mental health services are a prime modality for facilitating trauma recovery.

We, at Forestdale, Inc. – a social service organization housed in Queens and Brooklyn with the mission to ensure that children and families have fundamental assets needed to thrive - provide services to children and families that disrupt generational trauma and the cycle of events and behaviors that create adversity in the life of a child and family; ultimately, providing supports that lead to social, emotional, and economic stability and advancement for families who are child welfare system-involved and beyond.

One form of intervention that is highly effective at resolving generational trauma is dyadic therapy – a form of treatment that actively supports parent-child attachment. One in four children, ages 3-5, are estimated to struggle with psychosocial stress. Additionally, in the United States, more than 792,000 children have entered foster care services in the past year, indicating exposure to separation, loss, and trauma at a young age. Yet, interventions for emotional health are often postponed until older ages due to limited relevant interventions and the dearth of clinicians with qualified training for psychotherapeutic approaches for young children.

Forestdale, Inc. is expanding mental health services for children, ages 0-5, with plans to provide evidencebased dyadic therapist for young children. These therapies are rooted in attachment theory – which supports the idea that young children need a healthy relationship their caregivers to thrive emotionally. The objective of these therapies is to strengthen the child-caregiver bond.

Given that dyadic developmental psychotherapy is still relatively new as a practice – formed in the 1980’s by Dan Hughes, a clinical psychologist - there is still more to learn concerning the most effective interventions for specific diagnoses. Therefore, offering a few key evidence-based dyadic interventions developed in the past 30 years by esteemed experts in child development positions providers well to best service the needs of children, families, and communities.

As we, at Forestdale, expand upon our dyadic work with children and their caregivers, we look forward to further contributing to the evidence that these interventions offer lifealtering results for families – securing attachment, promoting nurturance, enhancing a child’s sense of security and self-esteem. We consider ourselves privileged to be part of such important work for the betterment of children, families, and communities.

Dr. William Weisberg, Ph.D.