News

In the fight for health justice, you can’t be a wallflower. Here’s where we shamelessly post links to articles and other missives about our work. In case you don’t want to take our word for it.

• [February 10, 2012] New York Times Blog, Hospital merger plan very much in doubt
• [January 18, 2012] Long Island Business News, Cuomo endorses SafeRx program
• [January 17, 2012] Albany Times Union, Cuomo should help seniors with their meds
• [December 22, 2011] El Diario, Tarea de salud para el Gobernador Cuomo en 2012
• [November 3, 2011] Gotham Gazette, Top Hospitals Offer Separate and Unequal Care
• [October 26, 2011] New York Times Local Blog, Community at Odds on How to Save Brooklyn Hospitals
• [October 20, 2011] New York Times, Two Major Hospital Groups in City Explore Merger – quoting NYLPI Health Justice Director on impact on consumers.
• [October 7, 2011] Wall Street Journal, Cuomo: NY to translate forms into other languages
• [October 7, 2011] El Diario, Nueva York: líder nacional a favor de comunidades inmigrantes – NYLPI and Make the Road New York op-ed celebrating Governor Cuomo’s signing of a statewide Executive Order on language access
• [October 7, 2011] Asian Journal, Cuomo issues Executive Order to improve access to state services for non-English speakers
• [May 25, 2011] Newsday, OPINION: For safety, improve Rx labeling
• [May 16, 2011] Drug Store News, N.Y. lawmakers seek to help patients with low health literacy
• [April 5, 2011] Fox News Latino, Mislabeled Prescriptions Putting Spanish Speakers at Risk
• [March 14, 2011] WBAI, Health Action interview on the Save Our Safety Net campaign and Medicaid Redesign
• [March 1, 2011] NY1, States Weigh Cost of Medicaid Reform
• [February 25, 2011] Star-Gazette, Medicaid panel finishes work, but obstacles remain in the legislature
• [February 25, 2011] Wall Street Journal, Cuomo’s Medicaid reform task force hits target – note: we do NOT think that the MRT hit its target, unless the target was harming low-income communities of color.
• [February 25, 2011] Newsday, Medicaid move: Anatomy of a vote
• [February 17, 2011] WRGZ Channel 2, Panel Has Two Weeks to Submit Plan to Cut Medicaid Spending
• [February 15, 2011] New York Daily News, Fixing ailing hospitals Medicaid task force eyed for operating aid – quoting NYLPI organizer, Alyssa Aguilera, on behalf of Southeast Queens coalition
• [January 6, 2011] Astoria Times and Jackson Heights Times, Boro pols back translator law
• [January 5, 2011] Queens Courier, Immigrants need help with drug labeling
• [December 15, 2010] World Journal, National pharmacies get better interpreting services
• [December 15, 2010] Univision, Etiquetas traducidas en los frascos
• [December 15, 2010] NY1, Advocates push for expansion of prescription label laws
• [December 15, 2010] AP (Spanish), Piden en NY que farmacias ayuden a inmigrantes con sus medicinas
• [December 15, 2010] WBAI Radio, Wake Up Call interview about state pharmacy bill (starts at 48:30)
• [November 15, 2010] WBAI Radio, Telling It Like It Is interview part 1 and part 2.
• [August 5, 2010] YourNabe.com, Mary Immaculate Site a finalist for new cancer center
• [July 19, 2010] WBAI radio, Health Action – Health Justice Director, Nisha Agarwal, discusses health disparities and health reform (starts at 12m 25s)
• [April 27, 2010] New York Times, With Medicaid Expansion Comes Fear of a Big Headache
• [April 17, 2010] NY1, Bronx Residents Claim Private Health Care System Practices De Facto Segregation
• [April 17, 2010] NY1 Espanol, Denuncian posible segregacion en sistema de salud
• [April 17, 2010] Bronx Times, Separate and Unequal Health Care in NYC
• [April 16, 2010] New York Daily News, Bronx Health REACH Accuses Hospitals of Segregating Patients Based on Health Insurance
• [April 15, 2010] WBAI Radio, Wakeup Call – Health Justice Organizer, Alyssa Aguilera, speaks about separate and unequal health care in New York City [starts at 35.42]
• [March 29, 2010] WNYC Radio, Interpreting Health: Medical Translation in a City of Immigrants
• [March 12, 2010] Gotham Gazette, Monserrate Fights for His Old Job — and ‘Traditional Values’ — Health Justice Director discusses importance of health care services to State Senate District 13 race in Queens
• [January 26, 2010] NY Post, Hospital ‘apartheid’
• [November 19, 2009] YourNabe.com, SE Qns: We’re shortchanged on health care — quoting Southeast Queens United in Support of Healthcare (SQUISH) coalition
• [November 3, 2009] News 12, Vote 09 — Health Justice Director, Nisha Agarwal, provides commentary on health issues impacting the mayoral vote and other citywide races
• [October 2, 2009] WBAI Radio, Healthy Styles — Health Justice Director, Nisha Agarwal, and Bronx Health REACH Director, Charmaine Ruddock, discuss the segregated care campaign (starts at 1 min 54 secs)
• [October 1, 2009] Queens Village Times, S.E. Qns Med. Centers Get Shots in the Arm
• [October 1, 2009] Queens Tribune, $30M in Hospital Aid Seen As a Good Start
• [September 15, 2009] Wall Street Journal Blog, N.Y. Hospital Closures Spur New Legislation – quoting statement by the Southeast Queens United in Support of Health Services (SQUISH) coalition
• [September 15, 2009] New York Daily News, Southeast Queens groups press for health aid
• [September 1, 2009] WBAI Radio, War on Immigrants Report – NYLPI’s Health Justice director comments on medical deportation and language access in pharmacies (starts at 26 mins 25 sec)
• [August 25, 2009] RaceWire, The Language of Health: Pharmacy Access in New York