In his latest plan to help people with severe mental illness, Mayor Eric Adams says the city will focus on sending more counselors and medical professionals into the streets, not police officers.
Tag: Hospitals
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Rural Hospitals Are Shuttering Their Maternity Units
Citing costs, many hospitals are closing labor and delivery wards, expanding so-called maternity care deserts.
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Who’s Spending $1 Million to Attack This Struggling Brooklyn Hospital?
A group called Save Maimonides has financed a relentless, monthslong campaign to disparage a struggling Brooklyn medical center. Is the best way to fix the hospital?
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China’s Cities Are Cutting Health Insurance, and People Are Angry
Local governments, short on money after three years of “zero Covid” and faced with many more retirees, are raising costs and overhauling benefits.
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How Health Insurance Works in China, and How It’s Changing
China is undertaking a far-reaching overhaul of its health care system as its cities reel from the financial pressure of three years of strict Covid policies.