{"id":6075,"date":"2024-11-12T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2024-11-25T15:12:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T20:12:13","slug":"nyc-health-and-hospitals-hearing-focuses-on-the-impacts-of-potential-suny-downstate-hospital-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/issue\/volume-42-no-9\/nyc-health-and-hospitals-hearing-focuses-on-the-impacts-of-potential-suny-downstate-hospital-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Health and Hospitals hearing focuses on the impacts of potential SUNY Downstate Hospital closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6079 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/Suny-Header-Web.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn Needs SUNY Downstate\" width=\"450\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/Suny-Header-Web.jpg 450w, https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/Suny-Header-Web-300x60.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>November 25, 2024 &#8212;<\/em> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">The campaign to save SUNY Downstate is nearly a year old, and although PEF, other unions and members of the NYC clergy have worked to halt its immediate closure, the future of community hospitals like Downstate are still unclear. That\u2019s why the New York City Council held a joint hearing on Oct. 29 with the Committee on Hospitals and the Committee on Health to hear concerns and find solutions.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6083\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6083\" src=\"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/OConnor-Gonzalez-Rosegreen-WEB.jpg\" alt=\"O'Connor, Gonzalez, Rosegreen.\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/OConnor-Gonzalez-Rosegreen-WEB.jpg 450w, https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/OConnor-Gonzalez-Rosegreen-WEB-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Region 11 Coordinator Bernadette O\u2019Connor, PEF Political Director Leah Gonzalez, and PEF Council Leader Joan Rosegreen, an RN at SUNY Downstate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Committee Chairs Mercedes Narcisse and Lynn Schulman delivered opening statements that welcomed participating panelists while also calling out government officials who have made the decision to close hospitals like SUNY Downstate without recognizing the impact on communities.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Councilmember Narcisse is a registered nurse who has worked in Central Brooklyn, and whose son attended SUNY Downstate\u2019s Medical School.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cAs a city council, we must consider the needs of the surrounding communities that would be disrupted by closures,\u201d said Councilmember Narcisse. \u201cAnd to ensure that everyone has access to high quality healthcare.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hospital closures in New York City happen all the time, according to Councilmember Schulman, with about 20 percent of closures occurring between 2003 and 2014. The state has been working to close \u201cunprofitable\u201d hospitals since 2005 after the findings of the Berger Commission recommended ways to save healthcare costs. Councilmember Schulman stressed that closing hospitals in that way helps no one.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThat mentality is unacceptable today,\u201d said Councilmember Schulman. \u201cAnd we will not allow that mentality to be the leading voice of this city or state.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr. Michelle Morse is the Interim Health Commissioner at the New York City Department of Health. She and Chief Medical Officer for Elmhurst Hospital, Dr. Laura Iavicoli, presented on behalf of NYC DOH.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr. Morse said that currently Kings County Hospital is one of the busiest hospitals and emergency rooms in the state and that while she cannot predict the full impact that a SUNY Downstate closure would have, she can safely say that Kings County \u2013 located just down the street in Brooklyn &#8212; will be affected.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWere SUNY Downstate to close, we don\u2019t need a study to tell us the ripple effects,\u201d said Dr. Morse. \u201cThe State Department of Health is responsible for planning, in partnership with any hospital that closes, to mitigate any impact on the community that uses that hospital.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SUNY Downstate has the only kidney transplant program in the borough of Brooklyn. During the hearing, Councilmember Narcisse expressed concern that patients would not be able to receive this kind of life-saving care at other hospitals within the NYC DOH system.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cHealth and Hospitals does not have a kidney transplant program,\u201d said Dr. Iavicoli.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr. Morse described the inability to access specialty care only found at SUNY Downstate, like kidney transplants, as a critical health equity issue for Brooklyn.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThis is certainly a serious health equity issue. Access to kidney transplants is a major challenge in the city at baseline,\u201d said Dr. Morse. \u201cAs far as we\u2019re aware, the SUNY Downstate kidney transplant program has transplanted over 3,000 people in the Brooklyn area since it was established.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6082\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6082\" src=\"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/Screenshot_Myrie-and-Simon-at-HH-Hearing.jpg\" alt=\"State Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon and State Senator Zelnor Myrie\" width=\"450\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/Screenshot_Myrie-and-Simon-at-HH-Hearing.jpg 450w, https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/Screenshot_Myrie-and-Simon-at-HH-Hearing-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon and State Senator Zelnor Myrie testify.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Also present at the hearing were State Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon and State Senator Zelnor Myrie, who both represent districts in Brooklyn. Simon said the way the state makes decisions on closures does not make sense, which is why she introduced the \u201cLocal Input in Community Healthcare,\u201d or LICH Act.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThis bill passed in both houses and is borne out of my experience as a community leader when Long Island College Hospital was closed in 2013,\u201d said Assemblymember Simon. \u201cI have been fighting ever since that time to make hospital closures make sense.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Senator Myrie has co-sponsored the LICH Act. He said that his community is in danger and that SUNY Downstate, a hospital that helped save the community during the height of the COVID pandemic, deserves better than a misguided proposal.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThe proposal included a \u2018public outreach process\u2019 that was rushed, opaque and wholly insufficient. There were closed-door, invitation-only, focus groups and a last-minute report, thrown together, that summarized its pre-ordained conclusion,\u201d said Myrie. \u201cIt was frankly an insult against my community, and I am proud that we mobilized to fight back against this plan.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Joan Rosegreen a PEF Executive Board Member and Registered Nurse at SUNY Downstate for more than 20 years, also spoke at the hearing. She told the council that she knows that the closure of the hospital will hurt the community which has a high incident of diabetes, kidney failure, heart failure and other high-risk illnesses.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rosegreen also told the council that this potential closure would affect her own family.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cMy mother, as I am speaking to you here now, is a patient at the hospital. I use the hospital for my entire family and have had my own treatment there,\u201d said Rosegreen.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In addition to offering services like pediatric dialysis, Rosegreen called SUNY Downstate the \u201cepicenter\u201d teaching hospital that produces diverse graduates who go on to become high quality doctors serving the community.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThe closure of this hospital, which produces 90% of the doctors serving in this community, and minority doctors, is going to be impacted tremendously for the neighborhood in and around,\u201d said Rosegreen. \u201cThere is no resource for these people to travel to the city for their care.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rosegreen and the other panelists all agreed, like the campaign slogan says, that \u201cBrooklyn Needs Downstate!\u201d On Nov. 25, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul appointed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-hochul-announces-appointees-suny-downstate-community-advisory-board\">advisory panel<\/a> to study the future of SUNY Downstate. The panel will hold public hearings and recommend a &#8220;reasonable, scalable, and fiscally responsible plan for the financial health, viability, and sustainability of SUNY Downstate Hospital and SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University&#8221;by April 1, 2025. PEF and the rest of the \u201cBrooklyn Needs Downstate\u201d coalition plan to keep the pressure on and demand real results in the months ahead.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 25, 2024 &#8212; The campaign to save SUNY Downstate is nearly a year old, and although PEF, other unions and members of the NYC clergy have worked to halt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"division":[],"allowed_regions":[],"allowed_divisions":[],"class_list":["post-6075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","issue-volume-42-no-9"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - 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