The state Legislature and Cuomo have already approved the $750 million to build the lab. It will replace facilities in five locations, including the Axelrod Institute and Center for Medical Science on New Scotland Avenue, the Biggs Laboratory under the Empire State Plaza and Griffin Laboratory in Slingerlands.
I saw my first dead body when I was 9 years old. Set to the tune of a melancholic violin, I stood at the foot of the casket and kept my gaze focused on the polished dress shoes and sleek trousers that I had never seen our family friend wear while he was alive. He was a thoughtful man, generous with his time, remarkable in his steadiness and dependability.
The unnamed nurse screamed into the phone at the 911 dispatcher: “The baby’s turning blue! Baby’s turning blue!” She urged the paramedics to come faster: “We’re not prepared for this.” In most cases, a patient going into labor at a health-care facility in a room full of nurses would be a stressful but manageable situation.
An emergency room physician expects to see more patients after Mayor Bill de Blasio's universal health care plan goes into effect. "We may actually get more patients because there are patients that are afraid to get health care because they do not have health insurance," says Dr. Tamara Moise.
Mount Carmel Health System says one of its intensive-care doctors gave “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medication to at least 27 near-death patients between 2015 and 2018. Dr. William Husel, who had worked for the system since 2013, has been fired, and details of an internal investigation by Mount Carmel have been turned over to authorities, the health system’s top executive said in a statement Monday.
A new community-based health plan created and run by doctors will begin serving Escambia, Santa Rosa and other Panhandle counties next month. On Feb. 1, Lighthouse Health Plan will begin serving approximately 24,000 Medicaid patients in 18 Panhandle counties.