Becker's Healthcare December 3, 2021
Errol Pierre is the senior vice president of Healthfirst, a New York City-based nonprofit health insurer serving 1.7 million people across the state of New York. Mr. Pierre spoke with Becker’s Dec. 1 about the organization’s latest efforts to expand health equity through the launch of Healthfirst ADVANCE.
Question: Can you talk a little bit about Healthfirst ADVANCE and the mission behind it?
Errol Pierre: We were founded in 1993, so nearly 30 years ago, when we were first created, we were built on a bedrock and a foundation of advancing health equity. And so we have 30 years of experience of doing this work in one of the biggest, most diverse cities in the world, where there...