2025-05-20T07:34:36-07:00 2024-12-31 942913361 Curtis T Yew CPA Inc 350 Crown Point Circle Ste 135 Grass Valley CA 95945 990EZ 2024-01-01 680384071 The Multi-Cultural Health Institute MULT 9419069484 1781 Dr Martin Luther King Way Sarasota FL 34234 Lisa A Merritt MD Executive Director 9419069484 2025-05-19 true true Curtis T Yew P00371689 5302722606 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X www.the-MHI.org X X 98527 X 98527 0 0 0 0 98527 7441 7441 381 63220 78483 20044 15544 35588 X 7711 27801 12141 12141 19852 39942 4308 4354 15544 35588 The organization is committed to research, education, ensuring equal healthcare access and treatment for the underserved and usually uninsured communities in addition to the dissemination of information regarding multicultural health issues. The organization's focus is to provide a holistic, full circle of life approach to healing and to improve the healthcare delivery system by educating, providing hands on training, and interacting with people in the communities we serve. It supports programs that educate, identify, and test for chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, stroke, cardiovascular disease, infant mortality and HIV/AIDS. The organization, through collaboraton and education, interacts with community partners to promote wellness and health care that will lead to longer, healthier lives, and reduce costly differences in rates of disease through effective prevention efforts. It seeks to level the healthcare playing field by promoting, educating, and ensuring equal healthcare access and treatment for vulnerable populations who experience disparities in the rates of disease. It uses the principles of prevention, education, advocacy, research, linkage to care, and sustainability ("PEARLS") to support programs that educate, identify and test for conditions such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, stroke, cardiovascular disease, infant mortality, mental health disorders, environmentally-related health disorders, and various infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Covid. The organization provides ongoing programs such as:1. Deployment of navigators and safekeepers to assist vulnerable individuals in accessing essential healthcare and resources and to maintain a helpline that community members can call to request assistance or information.2. Collaborate with various organizations to ensure vulnerable communities have access to vital resources during the occurance of storms (such as hurricanes) affecting the local area, such as medical supplies, prescription refills, equipment, virtual information sessions, and timely updates.3. Generate publications and disseminate the relevant health and wellness updates that is important to the local community. Hold monthly "healing circle" meetings that would focus on a specific health issue.4. Reaching out to underrepresented students and schools teaching about Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math and Health (STEAMH) careers and providing shadowing and internship opportunities via the MHI Scholars program.5. Public outreach with the MHI Safekeepers by participating and hosting serveral food donation events and distribution of health supplies such as masks.6. Actively educating participants in a year long program (CDC-approved Prevent T2 Lifestyle Prevention Program) that aims to reduce healthcare costs and improve health outcomes.7. The Care Coordination Program works to improve its clients' overall health and socioeconomic disparities by connecting individuals to available resources in their community. It is also designed to assist individuals to better manage their chronic conditions, monitor their medication usage, and encourage healthy lifestyle behaviors.8. 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