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 “Mount Sinai Medical Center”
The Mysterious Patient in Room 23: The Hermit Baroness
By Gotham Rex on October 20, 2022
Birgit Thyssen-Bornemisza led a life of eccentric anonymity and shabby gentility. Then her money got cut off. Then she had a stroke. Source: New York Times
Beleaguered by Omicron, New York Operates at Half Speed
By Gotham Rex on December 29, 2021
From subway lines to medical clinics to libraries, city businesses and services have been curtailed because of Covid. Source: New York Times
Their Baby Died in the Hospital. Then Came the $257,000 Bill.
By Gotham Rex on September 21, 2021
A New York family had good health insurance. But the bills for their daughter’s care started showing up and kept coming. Source: New York Times
Here’s Who Is Hospitalized for Covid in New York City as Cases Rise
By Gotham Rex on July 31, 2021
People with compromised immune systems and the unvaccinated make up a high percentage of patients who end up in the hospital. Source: New York Times
Dr. Barbara Murphy, Kidney Transplant Expert, Dies at 56
By Gotham Rex on July 3, 2021
Her focus was on immunology and how to predict and diagnose the outcomes of transplants. She was, a colleague said, “a great researcher and a great mentor to many people.” Source: New York Times
Mount Sinai Seeks to Expand School Virus Testing Program
By Gotham Rex on May 25, 2021
The health system, which is preparing to open a new laboratory that could process 100,000 tests a day, wants to take its program to public schools this fall. Source: New York Times
‘There Was Nothing Anybody Could Do for These Patients.’ Now There Is.
By Gotham Rex on April 6, 2021
The first successful direct transplant of a trachea is a medical milestone that could help thousands of people with airways damaged by ventilators and other causes. Source: New York Times
Hospital Workers Start to ‘Turn Against Each Other’ to Get Covid-19 Vaccine
By Gotham Rex on December 24, 2020
“I am so disappointed and saddened that this happened,” a New York hospital executive wrote to his staff after workers who did not have priority cut the line for the vaccine. Source: New York Times
Portraits of Nurses, By the Designer Rebecca Moses
By Gotham Rex on December 7, 2020
The designer Rebecca Moses turns a quarantine art project into a gift of thanks and tribute. Source: New York Times
Dr. Mary Fowkes, 66, Dies; Helped Science Understand the Pandemic
By Gotham Rex on November 26, 2020
She performed autopsies in New York that found blood clots in vital organs, suggesting how much the virus spreads through the body. Source: New York Times
Virus Hospitalizations Are Up in N.Y.C. But This Time, It’s Different.
By Gotham Rex on October 30, 2020
Patients with serious cases are spending less time in the hospital on average and are less likely to be put on ventilators. Fewer are dying. Source: New York Times
These Are the Heartbreaking Belongings That Covid Victims Left Behind
By Gotham Rex on June 29, 2020
When virus patients died, New York hospitals were faced with a sensitive problem: What to do with thousands of personal items? Source: New York Times
She Survived the Coronavirus. Then She Got a $400,000 Medical Bill.
By Gotham Rex on June 14, 2020
Patients who were treated for the virus are largely supposed to be exempt from receiving large bills. Source: New York Times
How a Virus Triage Tent Became a Serene Oasis for Health Care Workers
By Gotham Rex on June 12, 2020
A former Covid-19 triage tent outside a Manhattan hospital offers health care workers a chance to de-stress, using music and aromatherapy. Source: New York Times