Tag Archives: closures
New York Needs Safety Net Hospitals
Here is our op-ed on the Medicaid Redesign Team that ran in today’s Albany Times Union. Comments most welcome! By Nisha Agarwal and Shena Elrington Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s Medicaid Redesign Team was handpicked by him and elected by no one. … Continue reading
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Decisionmaking From on High
Tomorrow, Friday, February 18, is the deadline for members of Governor Cuomo’s Medicaid Redesign Team to submit their “scores” for 49 proposals given to them by the New York State Department of Health that are supposed to generate $2.85 billion–yes, … Continue reading
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Community Input When a Hospital Closes
As we have written about before, the community of Southeast Queens has long experienced some of the worst health outcomes in New York City across a variety of measures. No doubt, the shuttering last year of both Mary Immaculate Hospital … Continue reading
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Proton Beams or Primary Care
Crain’s Health Pulse, the New York health industry rag, has been abuzz for the last couple of weeks with news about health services in Queens. Specifically, there’s been a lot of talk about a proposed “proton beam cancer center” to … Continue reading
Filed under health disparities, people of color
Policy Is About Priority: Where Do Moms Fit In?
This post is by Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, a summer intern with the Health Justice Program and a student at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Recently, news sources and blog sites released a flurry of commentary and news articles on the results … Continue reading
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Community Health Planning: Now As Important As Ever
This post features guest author and ally, Judy Wessler of the Commission on the Public’s Health System (CPHS), which has fought for years to preserve and expand New York’s health care safety net. CPHS just released a new Report on … Continue reading
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Squeaky Wheels: Community Advocacy and Healthcare in Southeast Queens
This post is by Equal Justice Works Fellow Seth Cohen, an attorney at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI). Seth’s EJW Fellowship is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson and Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. As we have … Continue reading
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Hospital Mismanagement and the Perpetuation of Racial and Ethnic Disparities
This post, by the Director of NYLPI’s Health Justice Program, originally appeared on the blog of the Committee of Interns & Residents, which is fighting for the right to unionize at St. Barnabas Hospital. You can read more about CIR’s … Continue reading
Filed under immigrant health, language access, provider education
Place Matters
A recent article in the American Prospect about the De-Facto Segregation of Health Care has been getting a lot of attention, at least in the media that we read, and for good reason. It points out the uncomfortable truth that … Continue reading
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