Pictured above, left to right: Patricia Kao, MD, medical director; Frances L. Palm, COO, Zufall Health; Barbara Yost, vice president, network development, Princeton Health; Barbara Edwards, MD, academic director of ambulatory residency program; Eva Turbiner, CEO, Zufall Health; Bill Shuler, Chairman, Zufall Health Board of Directors; James Demetriades, CEO, Princeton Health; Linda Seeley, Secretary, Zufall Health Board of Directors; Rina Ramirez, MD, FACP, CMO, Zufall Health; and Ayda Tello, administrative director.
The community health center on the Penn Medicine Princeton Health campus reopened May 4 under new management and with a new name: Zufall Health Center – Plainsboro.
James Demetriades, CEO of Princeton Health, said the center has always played an important role toward fulfilling Princeton Health’s mission, serving uninsured and underinsured members of the healthcare system’s central New Jersey community.
Zufall Health — a nonprofit federally qualified health center (FQHC) that operates eight locations and two mobile units in New Jersey — enjoys access to additional resources that will enable it to increase access and expand services, Demetriades said. Zufall Health will provide the same primary and specialty care that were previously available and add podiatry during the first year. Dental care will be added the following year.
Princeton Health will have a representative on Zufall Health’s Board of Directors.
Demetriades commended the center’s staff, many of whom will continue working under Zufall Health; the physicians who volunteer their services; the medical and surgical residents who provide patient care in the center; Ayda Tello, administrative director; and Barbara Edwards, MD, former medical director, who will continue to manage the residency program at the center.
“You all did excellent work, always,” Demetriades said. “Patients were in the best of hands, and we know that will continue under Zufall Health’s leadership.”