Gouverneur Health and UHS Alum Dr. Cartmill

After our morning at the soup kitchen, the scholars met with Dr. Kimberly Cartmill, a 2011 of Dartmouth Medical School and a UHS scholar herself! Dr. Cartmill first took the scholars on a tour of Gouverneur Health, an NYU affiliated clinic in Lower Manhattan. 

 Gouverneur Health is situated in Chinatown and has a strong community presence. Dr. Cartmill told the UHS scholars about how the community holds a gala every year to support the operations of the health clinic, demonstrating how a good relationship with the local community can help a health center to flourish. Gouverneur is dedicated to serving the local community, regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. They provide a wide array of services, including primary health care, pediatrics, behavioral health and rehabilitation services. They also have many providers fluent in Spanish and Mandarin, meeting the needs of their diverse patient population. Dr. Cartmill then joined the scholars for a lunch of Chinese dumplings and talked to us about the challenges and benefits to working in an urban setting, and her experiences during residency. We were grateful for her time, and it was wonderful to see a past UHS scholar living the goals of the program, providing an underserved, diverse community with such quality care. 

 


-Asha Clarke, UHS Scholar Class of 2016