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Doral Health and Wellness tells BronxNet it is bringing care "from pediatric to geriatric" with home visits, telehealth and mobile screenings
Summary
On BronxNet's Open, executives from Doral Health and Wellness described home and community-based services, a partner portal and AI-driven tools designed to bring care to homebound patients across the five boroughs; guests also highlighted mobile mammogram and prostate-screening events that have found undiagnosed conditions.
Dr. Bob Lee invited leaders from Doral Health and Wellness to explain how the nonprofit operator connects patients to care in New York City and Westchester.
Devorah Forbes Courtney, executive vice president of operations at Doral Health and Wellness, said the organization is "a multispecialty, multiservice organization that services the community, 5 boroughs and Westchester," providing care "pediatric to geriatric, from 0 to infinity." She described programs including early intervention for ages 0–5, home-and-community-based services for chronically ill children, and a home-care program that supplies personal care and home health aides so families can continue daily life while patients receive support.
"We really help by sending a personal care assistant or a home health aide — help with the shopping, the cooking, the cleaning," Forbes Courtney said, arguing that in-home supports let caregivers "have a life." Director of Home Visit and Telehealth Programs Shaundell Clark added that Doral's palliative services offer comfort and symptom management — including massage and music therapy — and emphasized that palliative care is not solely end-of-life care but can improve daily functioning.
Jason Lewis, Doral's technical project manager, described how technology underpins that outreach. "How can we bring health care to your home faster?" he asked. Lewis said Doral uses a partner portal, launched about three years ago, to share KPIs with partner organizations and speed patient–provider connections. "We're constantly building," he said, describing work to reduce waits from days to hours and ultimately minutes, and to use AI to remove administrative friction.
The guests highlighted recurring community events: Clark said Doral runs a "mammogram bus" and other screening vehicles several times a year, offering on‑site blood-pressure and blood-sugar checks and cancer screenings. Forbes Courtney noted clinics in Brooklyn and Queens, home-care services across the five boroughs (including the Bronx), and a presence in Washington Heights. She also announced a women's health telehealth initiative intended to reduce barriers to care.
The host and guests gave social‑media handles and a website reference for listeners to learn more; they closed by thanking local partners and noting the organization's CEO, David Lipshutz.
Why it matters: Speakers said Doral's mix of in‑person home care, mobile screening events and telehealth is designed to reach homebound and underserved patients and to coordinate clinical and social supports. Officials pointed to the model's potential to detect undiagnosed conditions through outreach and to reduce missed appointments by meeting patients where they are.
Next steps: Doral said it will continue community health fairs and pursue its women's health telehealth initiative; the episode closed with contact information and invitations to follow Doral on social platforms.
