Dr. Myron Glick, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Jericho Road Community
Health Center (JRCHC), has announced his decision to step down from his role as Chief Executive
Officer, effective later this year, but remain a family doctor and public health advocate with the
organization. A search committee formed by JRCHC’s Board of Directors is conducting a national
search for Glick’s successor. He will remain as CEO until a successor is named.
Today, the Buffalo News published an op-ed by our Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Allana Krolikowski. As the federal government seeks to reduce spending, cuts to Medicaid seem inevitable–although devastating. What happens when the poorest among us can no longer access healthcare? The answer is that all of us will be less healthy.
The 2024 presidential campaign was rife with rhetoric around migrants coming to the US to commit violent crimes. This narrative about a “migrant crime wave” was so inflammatory that it arguably bolstered its loudest advocate’s path to victory. But of course, it was simply not true.
In Buffalo and across the country, we in primary care bear the brunt of the brokenness of our healthcare system. It’s not possible to really understand the stress on primary healthcare if you don’t understand the brokenness of how we pay for healthcare and have access to healthcare, instead of having single payer national healthcare.
The health center grounds have been transformed to prepare for this service and for the past 24 hours our staff and community members have been preparing a meal for everyone using an outdoor cooking fire. It is possible that the celebration will go long with too many speeches, but what a privilege to be here to celebrate 10 years of God’s faithfulness to Jericho Road in rural Sierra Leone. It will be an emotional service.
By God’s grace.
Buffalo’s commitment to supporting refugees shines through Jericho Road & VIVE, providing shelter, legal aid, and community resources amid policy changes.
In this moment of time in our nation, when it feels like there is so much division, too much hatred and not enough caring, it seemed important to challenge all of us to consider the basic notion of “Who is my neighbor?” And what does it mean to “love my neighbor?”
Today, we join the nation in mourning the loss and celebrating the remarkable life of former President Jimmy Carter. His legacy of dedication to human rights and to the poorest among us, lives on.
President Carter invested five decades of his post presidency life to champion bringing basic health to some of the poorest people in the world.