The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital in Brooklyn is ready for patients. It can withstand a storm worse than Sandy
The storm-resilient complex features a 7-foot-tall bronze statue of the Supreme Court justice, a Brooklyn native
The storm-resilient complex features a 7-foot-tall bronze statue of the Supreme Court justice, a Brooklyn native
A Brooklyn hospital that serves a large Orthodox Jewish population is fighting in court to try to fire a pediatric resident who posted antisemitic and homophobic tweets, according to legal filings. New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital tried to boot Walid Khass from its pediatric residency program after staff learned of his social media posts in…
The calls from the frontlines were disturbing. Emily Kane Miller, CEO of Ethos Giving had heard from her medical professional sister-in-law that supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) were running low in her hospital. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Faraut, CEO of LA LOOP, had heard the same from a doctor in her family. Seeing the need for…
Emerging from the hospital for the first time in hours, the nurse needed to talk to someone. A young woman, she’d trained hard for her career, with full knowledge that it would be a difficult one. What she hadn’t prepared for was saying the shema with dying coronavirus patients, comforting them through final moments that…
The New York State Assembly is calling on city and state health departments and city hospitals to begin a program that would allow volunteers with coronavirus antibodies to visit COVID patients, according to a joint letter signed by assembly members and city council members Kalman Yeger and Chaim Deutsch. “We propose that your hospitals create…
Brooklyn’s biggest hospital has made concessions to the Orthodox community in its neighborhood by allowing for broader and longer use of ventilators amid the coronavirus crisis, in contrast with other New York City hospitals who might increasingly need to start deciding who gets a ventilator and who doesn’t due to the combination of more patients…
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is “out-of-network,” leaving many privately insured patients with tens of thousands of dollars in bills, Vox reported. In its year-long investigation into emergency room billing practices, Vox learned that Zuckerberg San Francisco General, recently renamed for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after he donated $75 million, doesn’t work with private health…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Trump administration froze $25 million in funding to Palestinian hospitals in eastern Jerusalem. The decision to halt funding to the East Jerusalem Hospital Network, made up of six hospitals, came on Saturday, a week after the United States announced that it would halt all funding to the UNRWA, United Nations refugee…
ער פֿלעג זיך צוהערן ווי די מאַמע און באָבע שמועסן אויף ייִדיש און נישט באַנומען פֿאַר וואָס ער פֿאַרשטייט זיי נישט.
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