Saint Vincent’s Hospital is getting some help from the state to deal with its financial crisis.
NY1 has confirmed that Governor David Paterson is authorizing $6 million for the cash-strapped hospital to help it make payroll.
The funds will come out of a hospital restructuring program supervised by the state.
The governor will meet with the hospital’s board, [...]
Protecting the water New Yorkers drink is the goal behind several settlements announced today between the state and medical facilities.
Under the agreement announced by State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo today, five medical facilities have agreed to stop releasing pharmaceuticals into the New York City watershed. Those drugs end up in the watershed when they’re flushed [...]
In an effort to combat childhood obesity, the city’s highest school board voted Wednesday to change vendors for school vending machines.
The new machines will dispense drinks and snacks that adhere to strict nutritional guidelines. Snacks such as wasabi peas, diced peaches and seven grain crackers will now be sold.
That means food companies will need to [...]
New York City’s comptroller says an audit of the Health Department by his office shows the agency did not inspect all of the city’s licensed restaurants last year and during the first half of this year.
The audit’s findings were issued on Monday by Comptroller William Thompson, Jr., who is also a Democratic mayoral candidate.
He says [...]
Suffolk County has reported a seventh death from swine flu.
County health officials said Friday that the latest victim was a Town of East Hampton man between the ages of 25 and 35 who also had a serious underlying medical condition.
Suffolk Health Commissioner Dr. Humayun Chaudhry said the man died on Thursday. Authorities say the man had been [...]
Working Families Party circulates an online petition charging that five Democratic lawmakers are balking at legislation pushed by congressional leaders.
Five New York Democrats are helping to block President Obama’s health care reform plan, according to a left-wing political party that favors the proposal. In response, the Working Families Party launched a petition Thursday to [...]
Facing a crisis in its pension fund, 1199, New York’s giant health care union, reached an innovative settlement on Monday that calls for forgoing nearly a billion dollars in raises for 145,000 union members so that hospitals can increase their pension contributions to safeguard future retirement benefits.
The union, formally called 1199 S.E.I.U. United Healthcare [...]
As New York City braces for a second wave of swine flu this fall, health officials are making plans to carve space out of hospitals, clinics and other buildings to screen people before they can overwhelm emergency rooms.
Hospital and city officials said in interviews that the biggest surprise from the swine flu that swept the [...]
Health officials say this year’s swine flu epidemic has killed at least 47 people in New York. That’s nine more than previously known.
Almost all of the city’s victims had underlying medical conditions that put them more at risk from the virus. Those illnesses included asthma, diabetes or an immune system deficiency. Most people who catch [...]
Long Island’s Nassau County is reporting a second death linked to swine flu.
County health officials on Tuesday said a minor with multiple underlying medical conditions died on July 1. The minor had been hospitalized since June 25.
On Monday, Suffolk County recorded a fifth death linked to swine flu. That victim, a Babylon woman between the [...]
