TEXT OF MITCHELL BALK’S PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT ON JANUARY 22, 2019
Good Morning everyone. I am Mitchell Balk, president of the
Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation. I’m here today representing private sector
funders who have been working quietly, but intensively, for the last 10 months,
alongside City of Cleveland leaders, in public/private partnership, to address
lead poisoning. Our goal has been to create an evidence-based model that will
operate at scale, that will be embedded into our community, and be sustainable
into the future.