Turns out Richard Daines is the CEO of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan. According to the article in today's NYT, Daines is associated with Continuum Health Partners, the parent company of St. Luke's-Roosevelt, which has appparently survived well in the statewide downsizing plan.
Although cost cutting has featured prominently in Spitzer's agenda to date, the new health commissioner needs to have more in mind than that. There is a serious mismatch between community needs and health care services in New York that the Department of Health must take steps to fix. A series of decisions by the Department of Health about where to allow hospitals to open and close has made health care increasingly inaccessible and unequal for a growing number of New Yorkers.
Many neighborhoods with the highest health care needs, disproportionately low-income and communities of color, also have the fewest health care resources. These patterns violate the state, federal, and international laws protecting the right to health care. The new Commissioner of Health should takes steps to reinstate community based health planning and ensure that all New Yorkers have equal access to high quality health care.
Turns out Richard Daines is the CEO of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan. According to the article in today's NYT, Daines is associated with Continuum Health Partners, the parent company of St. Luke's-Roosevelt, which has appparently survived well in the statewide downsizing plan.
Although cost cutting has featured prominently in Spitzer's agenda to date, the new health commissioner needs to have more in mind than that. There is a serious mismatch between community needs and health care services in New York that the Department of Health must take steps to fix. A series of decisions by the Department of Health about where to allow hospitals to open and close has made health care increasingly inaccessible and unequal for a growing number of New Yorkers.
Many neighborhoods with the highest health care needs, disproportionately low-income and communities of color, also have the fewest health care resources. These patterns violate the state, federal, and international laws protecting the right to health care. The new Commissioner of Health should takes steps to reinstate community based health planning and ensure that all New Yorkers have equal access to high quality health care.