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Bushwick Nonprofit Offers Free Wellness Checks to New Yorkers

Riseboro is taking preventative health care to the next level.

Bushwick Nonprofit Offers Free Wellness Checks to New Yorkers

Bushwick Nonprofit Offers Free Wellness Checks to New Yorkers

Riseboro is taking preventative health care to the next level.

Bushwick Nonprofit Offers Free Wellness Checks to New Yorkers

According to Chris Leto, Director of Outreach & Special Programs for Bushwick-based preventative health care non-profit Riseboro, his employer is politically neutral.  However, given the nature of the 46-year-old organization’s work — which includes elder care, job placement, local art promotion and the “human touch” that is often missing from hospital environments — such a statement rings more than a little coy.

Because in America, where the issue of healthcare is as sharply riven along partisan lines as abortion, defense spending, and immigration, Riseboro’s compassionate modus operandi is political by default. (The…

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