Mission & History The Ryan Health Network - for everyone.
The Ryan Network Idea An important influence on the Ryan Network, former Congressman William F. Ryan laid the foundation for the Network when he said 'Healthcare is a right, not a privilege'. This has remained the main objective of the three Manhattan-based centers since the Network was born in 1967. The Ryan Network Family The three centers in Manhattan that make up the Ryan Network support culturally diverse communities most in need of medical assistance. Part of the Community Health Center movement, the Ryan Network strives to provide affordable, quality medical services at a fraction of the cost. Patients can expect to be treated with dignity, confidentiality and respect. The Extensive Ryan Network Working alongside the Ryan Network's three primary sites (the Ryan Center; the Ryan-NENA Center and the Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton Center) The Ryan Network operates a number of off-site Outreach services also, which include programs in schools, shelters and mobile medical vans. The Ryan Network History Set up as a demonstration project in 1967, a decade later the William F. Ryan Community Health Center was established as a freestanding Health Care facility with its own, community-controlled Board of Directors. The Center's stability, direction and quality of leadership led to its expansion in the late 1980s and to its merger with the NENA Comprehensive Health Council and the center being granted a loan from a private lending institution to build a full-scale, 35,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility (the primary Ryan Center). In 2001 the Ryan Network's third center opened, the Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center, completing the Ryan Network.		Barbra E. Minch President & CEO Kathy Gruber Executive Director - Ryan-NENA Karen Westervelt Executive Director - Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton William F. Ryan Board of Directors Bobbie Maniece-Harrison Ed.,D. - Chair Arnaldo Barron Anne Canty George Dunbar Alan Goldstein, DDS Ronald Guy Harriet Chan King, Esq Ann Maldonado Hope Mason, MPA Hector Pereira Angel Roman, MBA Valeria Spann, MSSW Milta Zeno, CSW Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton Board of Directors Walter Delacruz, Esq. - Chair Deidre Anderson Anne Canty Ronald Guy Bobbie Maniece-Harrison, Ed.,D. Beth Goldstein-McCusker Hector Pereira Sherrie Santore, RN Michael Williams