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.

• [July 11, 2013] Nonprofit Quarterly, Study Looks at Migrant Use of Health Centers and Fear of Deportation
• [June 25, 2013] New York Daily News, Polish immigrant deported by N.J. hospital after crippling stroke
• [April 24, 2013] HuffPost Live, Immigration Black Hole
• [April 23, 2013] Huffington Post/Associated Press, U.S. Hospitals Quietly Deport Hundreds of Undocumented Immigrants – Cites medical repatriation report produced by NYLPI and Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice. This story was picked up by several news outlets including the Washington Post, Denver Post, and CBS News.
• [April 22, 2013] Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Opinion: Address community needs before closing hospitals
• [October 14, 2012] Times Union, Letter: Ensure balanced SafeRx decisions
• [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