Be Healthy – National Minority Organ Donor Awareness Week, August 1-7

Vital Stats – 121K: Number of Men, Women and Children in the US in need of an organ transplant.(Source: Montefiore Medical Center) National Minority Donor Awareness Week, celebrated annually from Aug. 1-7, is a nationwide observance to honor the generosity of multicultural donors and their families, while also underscoring the critical need for people from diverse communities to register their decision to Donate Life as organ, eye and tissue donors. To raise awareness for this important issue, Montefiore Medical Center will be holding a series of events throughout the Bronx. A single donor can save or heal the lives of

By TATYANA TURNER Several Decatur Ave. residents, Northeast Bronx Dawah and members of Community Board 7 gathered early in front of an unkempt building at 383 E. 198th St. to protest against a proposed shelter many believed was intended for military veterans.

Bringing Healthy Food to Norwood

By HAYDEE CAMACHO Every Thursday during the summer and fall, a truck journeys from Norwich Meadows Farm north of Binghamton to the Bainbridge Community Garden at 2980 Bainbridge Ave. There, members of the Norwood/Bedford Food Cooperative Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) begin unloading the cargo of produce picked just that morning. Bins fill to the brim with zucchini, red and green lettuces, cauliflower, peas, fennel, onions, garlic and black radishes.

Latest Digital Download of Norwood News Is Available!

By DAVID CRUZ The latest, community-packed edition of the Norwood News is out with plenty of community news you can use. This is our month-long edition where we hope to keep you in the know with some community happenings taking place near you. We first, however, go to Kingsbridge where tenants at a newly plush apartment building are getting soaked with a proposed rent increase as high as $500. Read what tenants and the building landlords have to say, and how elected are stepping in to get a handle on this. Check out another related story of a Creston Avenue landlord

By NORWOOD NEWS The Jerome Park Reservoir Access Task Force held its first meeting at the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center, reviewing plans and objectives for the scheduled August 6 meeting with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Agency over pilot access program. Committee members agreed that one step in a more permanent access program would be to open up the reservoir’s dividing wall to the general public. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, whose district covers the Reservoir, said that given the good condition of the walkway, it needed very little upgrade to make it a usable space for the public. When asked

By IMANI HALL Vital Stats: 4K- Number of pregnancies among teen girls ages 15 to 19 in the Bronx. (Source: New York City Department of Health) Montefiore’s School Health Program (MSHP) has been awarded $3 million in funding by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation to combat teenage pregnancy in the Bronx. MSHP provides services to 40,000 Bronx students at 73 high schools in 22 school locations.

Be Healthy – Federal funds for ER-decongestion Plan Come to the Bronx

By DAVID CRUZ Vital Stats: $438 Billion – Costs of Medicaid nationally. (Source: Center of Budget and Policy Priorities.) Hospitals across the Bronx have begun receiving an infusion of federal monies aimed at a plan that ensures Medicaid-covered patients stay on top of their health to avoid a costly emergency room visit. The plan is aligned with a larger goal of shrinking Medicaid spending, officials from St. Barnabas Health System (SBH) announced.

MMG Family Health Center Moves to New Facility

Montefiore Medical Group Family Health Center has relocated to a high-tech center at Fordham Plaza, heralded with a ribbon cutting ceremony June 11. (l-r) Cutting the ribbon is Deirdre Rosado, director of Operations, Montefiore Medical Group; Andrew Racine, MD, PhD, senior vice president, chief medical officer, Montefiore Health System; Steven M. Safyer, MD, president and CEO, Montefiore Health System; Bruce H. Soloway, MD, Department of Family Medicine; Sheila Yates, RN, MSN, administrative director, Family Health Center; and Maria Gbur, MD, medical director of the Family Health Center. The center offers primary and specialty care. Photo courtesy Montefiore Medical Center

Latest Digital Edition of the Norwood News Is Out!

By DAVID CRUZ The award-winning Norwood News is proud to present its latest edition of its bi-weekly newspaper that’s available in 300 locations throughout the northwest Bronx. Or you can read up on community news you can use from your mobile device and soak in plenty of eye-catching news. Before we delve into the top story, we want to divert your attention to page six in the newspaper: an award for Best Small Circulation Publication by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s annual Ippies awards. Find out what the judges have to say about this newspaper filled with original reporting.