From left: Dominique Stennett, MHA, Practice Manager, and general practitioners Jason Kindt, DO, and Ramon Pesigan, MD, of The Samuel J. Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts, with CATS cast members.
The Samuel J. Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts—a medical facility jointly established by Mount Sinai Doctors and The Actors Fund—increased awareness of the importance of the flu vaccine with the help of two feline friends from the Broadway show CATS. On Monday, October 2, Claire Rathbun, who plays Victoria, and Tyler Hanes, who plays Rum Tum Tugger, visited the Health Center to shoot a video for Playbill.com that enforces the safety and effectiveness of the flu vaccine in preventing and spreading the seasonal flu. Located above The Actors Fund headquarters at 729 Seventh Avenue, it is the sole health center in New York City that caters to the performing arts community—which includes actors, musicians, dancers, ushers, and stagehands— and is open to the public.