Kalam Muttalib, the former CEO and board chairman and local health care advocate died at the age of 71 on Saturday, December 13. He was a well-known personality in Rochester's health community, was an advocate for health and has helped thousands of people in his locality.
Muttalib is an advocate for affordable health care in his lifetime of work as chairman of Westide Health Services. He was able to assist and help around 14,000 patients in 2010. However, in 2011, his company experienced financial difficulties and had merged with Jordan Health Center.
He was a leader and played a major role in making certain that Rochester health centers such as Woodward Health Center and Brown Square Health Center stayed open even if there was a change in leadership. This was according to Laurie Donohue, the chief medical officer of Anthony L. Jordan Health Centers.
Donohue said, "He was instrumental in putting in hours and hours of time to ensure that health care would be available to the folks that we had been servicing at Westside since the 1970s. He just had a sense of the struggles that the patients we deal with go through on a day-to-day basis."
Health care is important for many constituents because it may lessen the burden from medical expenses. Keeping the family secured in their health concerns is something that everyone now is most concerned about. Thus, applying and registering in plausible health care companies is essential for every citizen.
Health care companies make sure everyone is secured and protected through their services.
Mr. Muttalib is a muslim so he had funeral arrangement based on their traditions. Barlolomeao Funeral Home has handled his funeral who was buried at the Muslim Community Center in Avon.