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Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in New York, according to the New York State Department of Health. more
In the modern world we live in, in the richest country in the world and in one of the wealthiest areas of that country, you’d think that Nassau County’s expectant and new mothers, along with their babies, would get the best care in the world. You’d be wrong. more
Nassau University Medical Center President Dr. Victor Politi and State Sen. Kemp Hannon announced on June 29 the hospital’s participation in an ambitious statewide incentive plan that aims to reform the health care system by focusing on greater care for at-risk, low-income patients to reduce “avoidable hospitalizations,” thereby lowering state Medicaid costs. If successful, the program could net hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding for Long Island and Queens hospitals over the next five years, portions of which would go the NUMC. more
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a statewide Ebola plan on Oct. 16 that called for the coordination of health care, Port Authority and Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers to combat a potential spread of the Ebola virus should it cross New York’s borders. He also designated eight hospitals, including Long Island’s North Shore-LIJ, in Nassau County, and Stony Brook University Hospital, in Suffolk, to act as regional centers for treating patients with Ebola. more
Breast cancer victims are our mothers, our sisters, our friends and, yes, sometimes our fathers and brothers. more
To reduce its financial burden while its laboratory is suspended, Peninsula Hospital Center will layoff employees and agreed, in partnership with the committee of unsecured creditors and its lender, Revival Funding, LLC, to the appointment of an operating trustee in the bankruptcy case. more
Peninsula Hospital Center is currently operating under an order from the State Department of Health that the Far Rockaway facility cannot admit patients for 30 days from Feb. 23, when the order was issued, and the permit for its clinical laboratory was suspended. more
Updated Aug. 26 at 10:30 p.m. As New York City and Long Island prepares for Hurricane Irene, Peninsula Hospital Center remains a functioning hospital and multiple investors are in talks with Peninsula officials regarding keeping the Far Rockaway facility open. more
The closing of Peninsula Hospital Center in Far Rockaway has set in motion plans by St. John’s Episcopal Hospital to expand its emergency department that includes hiring more staff, using underutilized space and implementing new procedures to process emergency patients. more
Administrators of the Peninsula Hospital Center and the MediSys Health Network, which operates the 200-bed Far Rockaway facility, will not officially say that the hospital is closing, but two Five Towns dentists who are members of its dental department have confirmed that the hospital is closing. more
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