As losses mount, Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital may close down
by Thomas Dworetzky, Contributing Reporter | May 19, 2016
Business Affairs
Primary Care
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
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Famed Beth Israel Hospital in New York City may soon close down, leaving Downtown Manhattanites on both the East and the West sides without a major hospital or emergency room.
Mt. Sinai Beth Israel nurses told The Villager newspaper last Tuesday, “They are going to make a big announcement before the end of the month ... We anticipate this is coming next week.”
The health care system is bleeding red ink, according to Crain's New York — $85.6 million in the first nine months of 2015, running at a pace to rival its 2014 $90.7 million loss.
The business news site also revealed details of an "urgent alert" email sent by the New York State Nurses Association to its members.
“We have been informed by management that they will be announcing the downsizing of Beth Israel within the next week or two. Their plan is to move units and individuals throughout the system,” NYSNA officials told members.
The news of the hospital's peril prompted a joint letter expressing "grave concern" to Mt. Sinai Health System president and CEO Kenneth Davis from shocked local politicians, including City Council members Daniel Garodnick, Rosie Mendez and Corey Johnson, Congress member Carolyn Maloney, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, State Senator Brad Hoylman and Assembly members Brian Kavanagh and Richard Gottfried.
They advised Davis that "Beth Israel has been a constant presence and resource for the entire city, and the East Side of Manhattan in particular. Any downsizing or closure at Beth Israel threatens to further strain an already overburdened network of health care providers in Manhattan, reduce health care options and curtail services in the immediate neighborhood, and eliminate jobs."
In addition, their letter also warned that "the loss of the Beth Israel Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [NICU] is instructive – while Mount Sinai may have felt comfortable with closing the facility at Beth Israel because it has other NICUs in its system, this decision forces local parents to travel out of their area at a highly stressful and time-starved period in their lives."
The threat of shuttering the facility follows the closing of St. Vincent's Hospital in 2010. That facility, on the Lower West Side, had been on the front lines in the early fight against HIV/AIDs. It was replaced by an ultra-lux 200-unit Greenwich Lane condominium complex after proposals were made to build a new hospital nearby. This did not happen, according to the New York Times.
Mt. Sinai Beth Israel nurses told The Villager newspaper last Tuesday, “They are going to make a big announcement before the end of the month ... We anticipate this is coming next week.”
The health care system is bleeding red ink, according to Crain's New York — $85.6 million in the first nine months of 2015, running at a pace to rival its 2014 $90.7 million loss.
The business news site also revealed details of an "urgent alert" email sent by the New York State Nurses Association to its members.
“We have been informed by management that they will be announcing the downsizing of Beth Israel within the next week or two. Their plan is to move units and individuals throughout the system,” NYSNA officials told members.
The news of the hospital's peril prompted a joint letter expressing "grave concern" to Mt. Sinai Health System president and CEO Kenneth Davis from shocked local politicians, including City Council members Daniel Garodnick, Rosie Mendez and Corey Johnson, Congress member Carolyn Maloney, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, State Senator Brad Hoylman and Assembly members Brian Kavanagh and Richard Gottfried.
They advised Davis that "Beth Israel has been a constant presence and resource for the entire city, and the East Side of Manhattan in particular. Any downsizing or closure at Beth Israel threatens to further strain an already overburdened network of health care providers in Manhattan, reduce health care options and curtail services in the immediate neighborhood, and eliminate jobs."
In addition, their letter also warned that "the loss of the Beth Israel Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [NICU] is instructive – while Mount Sinai may have felt comfortable with closing the facility at Beth Israel because it has other NICUs in its system, this decision forces local parents to travel out of their area at a highly stressful and time-starved period in their lives."
The threat of shuttering the facility follows the closing of St. Vincent's Hospital in 2010. That facility, on the Lower West Side, had been on the front lines in the early fight against HIV/AIDs. It was replaced by an ultra-lux 200-unit Greenwich Lane condominium complex after proposals were made to build a new hospital nearby. This did not happen, according to the New York Times.
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