HELPFUL and
HEALTHFUL Why Health Services Staff Pushed Through the Pandemic by Greg Hernandez
VANGUARD | FALL / WINTER 2021
D
uring the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Health Services remained open—and there’s no sign of closing its doors as the global health crisis inexorably heads toward the two-year mark. The Center's newly-appointed Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kaiyti Duffy says this dedication to remain open is keeping with Center tradition. “Health services at the Center have very sacred roots in the early days of HIV when it became this place for people to come for care when nobody else would see them,” said Duffy. “That’s such a sacred history to have: to be this medical home. We have since grown and opened our doors to the wider queer community.”
