For decades, smaller “safety net” hospitals like Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, in Brooklyn, have been losing money and are under pressure to close. But the pandemic has shown just how needed they are. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Emergency Medical Treatment”
Covid, Flu and RSV Are Increasing Hospitalizations in NYC
By Gotham Rex on October 27, 2022
New Yorkers are falling ill with new variants of Covid and old illnesses like flu and RSV that masking and other precautions once held at bay. Source: New York Times
How New York City’s Hospitals Withstood the Omicron Surge
By Gotham Rex on February 5, 2022
The highly contagious coronavirus variant stretched the city’s health care system to the breaking point, but not past it. Source: New York Times
What the Omicron Wave Looks Like at One Brooklyn Hospital Emergency Room
By Gotham Rex on January 15, 2022
The nature of this variant, combined with widespread vaccine use, may make it seem less severe in some ways than earlier ones. It doesn’t always feel that like that here. Source: New York Times
Rural Ambulance Crews Have Run Out of Money and Volunteers
By Gotham Rex on April 25, 2021
Strained by pandemic-era budget cuts, stress and a lack of revenue, at least 10 ambulance companies in Wyoming are in danger of shuttering — some imminently. Source: New York Times
‘It Felt Like Deception’: An Elite NYC Hospital Charges Huge Covid Test Fees
By Gotham Rex on March 30, 2021
Insurers are stuck with the big bills from Lenox Hill, but the public ultimately pays through higher premiums. Source: New York Times
Amid Pandemic, Scientists Reassess Routine Medical Care
By Gotham Rex on December 12, 2020
All this year, patients stayed away from doctors’ offices in droves, postponing tests and treatments. Maybe there’s a silver lining. Source: New York Times
This Hospital Cost $52 Million. It Treated 79 Virus Patients.
By Gotham Rex on July 21, 2020
Red tape and turf battles marked the race to create temporary hospitals for the coronavirus onslaught in New York. Source: New York Times
‘I Couldn’t Do Anything’: The Virus and an E.R. Doctor’s Suicide
By Gotham Rex on July 11, 2020
Dr. Lorna Breen was unflappable — until she faced a new enemy. Source: New York Times