Horizon Family Medical donates to Touro College medical mission
MIDDLETOWN — Horizon Family Medical Group, with 40 offices throughout Orange County including those in Warwick, Florida, Goshen and Monroe, recently extended its health care across the seas.
The healthcare firm donated $2,500 plus medical supplies to Medical Brigades at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Middletown.
The Medical Brigades chapter at Touro includes a group of first-year medical students who, upon completion of their inaugural year of studies, will travel to Honduras on a medical mission. The volunteers will shadow local and foreign health professionals as they provide free consultations and medications to patients in rural communities.
Dr. Alex Joanow, a resident of Warwick and one of the founding partners of Horizon Family Medical as well as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Touro, said the medical mission came to his attention and he and Horizon CEO Jim Olver were anxious to help.
Joanow knows the students well. He's been active as a teaching faculty member in several departments since the school opened last August. He noted that Horizon's collaboration with the school predated its opening by a few years.
"It has been an exceptional and rewarding opportunity to work with Touro and its inaugural class," said Joanow.
"On behalf of Touro, I would like to thank Horizon Family Medical Group and Dr. Joanow for their contribution to our medical students for their Honduras medical mission," said Dr. Ken Steier, founding dean of Touro's Middletown campus. "Medical missions are very important to us and for our medical students' training."
Dr. Martin Torrents, associate chairman of the Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine at Touro, and his wife will be heading the medical mission to Honduras.
"I feel privileged that I will be able to join the students and to be able to partake in their educational experience abroad," said Torrents. "This is in line with Touro's mission statement and we hope these students get a vast experience treating under-served people."