Brooklyn
Video: Brooklyn Hospitals Facing Critical Test
Jarrett Murphy |
BK Live takes a look at the challenges facing private and public hospitals in the city’s largest borough.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Call on Cuomo to Boost Health Plan for Excluded Immigrants
Kevin Stump |
The governor and assembly must take action, the author writes, to help ‘lawfully present’ immigrants who right now are falling through the cracks of the healthcare system.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews:
Hey Trump, Cruz: This is how New York Treats its Immigrant Residents
David R. Jones |
This is precisely the sort of conversation we need to be having.
The Work Site
Worksite Video: Vital Signs Look Good for Health Information Field
Marc Bussanich |
The growing health industry is not just about caring for patients. Managing health information is a big part of modern medical care, and for job seekers who are more interested in crunching data than taking pulses, a new report has key insights.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Want to Fix Healthcare? Fix Health Literacy First
Dr. Matthew Weissman |
Just 12 percent of Americans are sufficiently health literate. The Rx, this doctor argues, is for patients and doctors to work harder to understand each other.
Health and Environment
Hospitals Face Pressure, Six in Brooklyn Could Close
Ruth Ford |
With 15 hospital closings in the past decade, and six more in Brooklyn on shaky ground, New York’s healthcare system is caught between balancing the budget and providing the medicine people need.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
NYC Needs Paid Sick Days, Not Lame Excuses
Apurva Mehrotra |
Thousands of New Yorkers face an impossible choice when they get sick: Go to work and get yourself and others sicker, or stay home and risk losing pay or your post.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Teen Sex Message Minces Few Words
Catherine M. Abate |
Some have criticized the words that teens use to discuss sex in a new series of public service announcements. This author argues the only way to reach at-risk youth is to speak their language.
Economy
How Health Care Repeal Would Affect New York
Jarrett Murphy |
Republicans want to reverse President Obama’s health care reform law. What would that mean for New Yorkers?
Bronx
Medical Mystery: Why A Booming Health Sector Pays Low Wages
Neil deMause |
Home health aides are seeing some of the best growth of any sector in New York. But the growing demand for their services hasn’t improved wages that leave many in or near poverty.
