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Doctors Debate: Should City Aid Growth in Palliative Care?

Just how far should medicine go in turning death and dying into a growth industry? Two New York City doctors, the head of the city’s largest public hospital, and a nationally known geriatrician, gently clashed on that topic Thursday at a City Council ...

From ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bellevue Hospital,  Thomas R. Frieden

6 Therapists at Bellevue Forced Out Over Hours

Six therapists have been forced to resign from Bellevue Hospital Center, New York City’s premier public hospital, after an investigation into the falsification of time sheets, hospital officials said on Friday. The therapists psychologists and ...

From ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bellevue Hospital

Chief of NewYork-Presbyterian to Retire in 2 Years

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times Herbert Pardes has been chief executive of NewYork-Presbyterian since 2000. New York City’s largest private hospital announced Friday that its chief executive, one of the highest-paid hospital executives in the country, ...

From ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Columbia University,  New York Times Company,  John J. Mack,  Morgan Stanley,  Internal Revenue Service

Costs at Urban Hospitals May Get Extra Scrutiny in Health Care Overhaul

As Congress struggles to rein in health care costs as part of its sweeping reform efforts, hospitals in New York City and other urban areas that provide some of the most expensive care are among the primary targets. The issue pits hospitals in more ...

From ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate,  Institute of Medicine,  New York University

Emergency Order Lets Dentists and Others Give Flu Vaccine

Gov. David A. Paterson declared a state of emergency Thursday, in a move intended to combat a rising tide of swine flu in some parts of the state by expanding the ranks of health care professionals who can administer flu vaccines. In a six-page ...

From ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, NYT: City Room,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David A Paterson,  US State Department,  Barack Obama

City Presses Ahead With School Vaccinations

Despite nationwide shortfalls in the supply of swine flu vaccine, New York City’s health commissioner said Monday that the city is going ahead with the first stage of its plan to vaccinate school children. School nurses will begin giving free ...

From ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Thomas A Farley,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Confession Details Former Bellevue Executive's Abuses

In what amounted to a five-page confession, a former executive at New York City’s oldest public hospital has provided a litany of official abuses he committed, such as using his hospital chauffeur to buy lottery tickets and hiring subordinates to ...

From ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, The New York Times,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bellevue Hospital

Mandatory Flu Vaccination for N.Y. Health Workers Is Criticized

In testimony before several State Assembly committees in Lower Manhattan, Donna Lieberman, executive director of the civil liberties union, said that the requirement violated the constitutional right of health care workers to control their bodies and ...

From ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, The New York Times,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Greater New York Hospital Association

In Court and Outside It, Money Plays Lead Role

Amid the testimony about wealth and privilege, at least two of the jurors in the trial of Brooke Astor’s son, Anthony D. Marshall, found their own lives becoming poorer and poorer. As the trial stretched through six months, much longer than the judge ...

From ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Anthony D Marshall,  Brooke Astor,  New York Public Library,  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Henry Kissinger

Looking Beyond the Glamour, Astor Jury Found a Moral Flaw

Six months after jury selection began, six weeks after the prosecution finally rested its case and more than a week after the start of deliberations, the jurors finally hit a wall. Almost all of them had come around to the decision that Anthony D. ...

From ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS AND JOHN ELIGON, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Anthony D Marshall,  Brooke Astor,  Glamour,  Steve Cohen,  Childe Hassam

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