Health and Education Alliance is a non-profit that connects schools and healthcare organizations to provide families with health and education services.
Health and Education Alliance is providing easy access to healthcare for families through their children’s schools.
The Health and Education Alliance (HEA) has developed a 4-pronged community school partnership model that creates a one-stop-shop for education, health, and social services. Our model has been proven to tackle multiple social determinants of health and create millions of dollars of extra funding annually that can be sustainably re-invested for educators and families, especially in underserved neighborhoods with high proportions of special education students. HEA’s blended-billing model allows schools and providers to serve underserved students with Medicaid insurance at a sustainable return on investment while lowering system-level, long-term complications and costs from chronic illness and disability.
Our Mission Statement
Health and Education Alliance (HEA) strives to create partnerships between school districts, health care organizations, and community groups that increase families’ access to life changing services and opportunities. HEA also aims to build supportive communities for educators and families while increasing resources for all.
Our Team
Krishna Patel – Founder
Krishna Patel is a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. At Mount Sinai Hospital, he is actively involved in research having published numerous first-author papers in the areas of oncology and global health, and he also serves on the Student Executive Committee of the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership as Finance Chair. He is the founder of Health & Education Alliance, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to building partnerships between health systems and school districts and creating supportive communities for students and families.
He aspires to become an oncologist who works with researchers and policymakers to advance healthcare for patients with physical and intellectual disabilities. Krishna’s work has been recognized by numerous national and international organizations from NGOs to philanthropic foundations. He has also received multiple awards including the Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) and an induction into Mount Sinai’s chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS).
He holds a B.S. in Economics and B.A in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania’s Life Sciences and Management Program, and an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention from the University of Oxford where he was a Thouron Scholar.
Our Board Members
Dipen Shah, CPA, Expenses Anywhere
Rajesh Shah, Primary Care Physician, Independent Practice
Bhavank Doshi, Primary Care Physician, Preferred Primary Care Partners
Hitendra Patel, Gastroenterologist
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