ALBANY — As the head of an organization representing 50 upstate hospitals, Gary Fitzgerald says healthcare executives frequently express their concerns to them about the hostile and confrontational treatment their medical staffers face on the job.
'Pandemic. Healthcare financing mess. We had a cyber attack in the middle of it all,' says retiring CEO James E. Fanale, MD. 'Who knew the last couple of years were going to happen?'
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday awarded public health departments $3.14 billion over five years to recruit, retain and train public health workers and improve their data, systems and processes.