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 “Medicare”
Racial Inequities Persist in Health Care Despite Expanded Insurance
By Gotham Rex on August 17, 2021
A series of studies in an influential medical journal takes a close look at longstanding gaps in medical care. Source: New York Times
A Covid-19 Lesson: Some Seriously Ill Patients Can Be Treated at Home
By Gotham Rex on July 18, 2020
To ease pressure on hospitals, Northwell Health brought medical workers, oxygen tanks and intravenous equipment into patients’ homes. Now Florida is taking cues. Source: New York Times