New York City’s Public Hospitals Threatened With Funding Cuts

At a time when the number of uninsured in New York City is rising, the state is considering cutting funding for the city’s public hospitals by up to $370 million, according to a story in The New York Times.

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The cuts, included in Gov. David A. Paterson’s budget proposal, could shift a significant portion of federal funding from the city’s public hospitals to private hospitals, city officials told The Times.

State officials disputed the figures, but Alan D. Aviles, the president of the city’s Health and Hospitals Corp., which oversees the city’s 11 public hospitals, predicted the proposed cuts, if enacted, could force the system to consider layoffs and reductions in specialty programs such as bariatric surgery.

Read the The New York Times’ story on New York public hospital funding cuts.

 

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