Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we will look at what a safety net hospital in the Bronx is planning to do with a $ 5 million subsidy. We will also get details about the decision of a judge to give an external official who is in charge of the troubled Rikers Island Jail Complex.
St. Barnabas Hospital is planning to spend $ 5 million on a program for his nurses.
“Only because we treat poor people does not mean that we should not have the best possible staff,” said Dr. David Perlstein, the president and chief executive of St. Barnabas, a hospital with 422 beds in the Bronx.
The money is from $ 51 million in subsidies from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, which was formed a few years ago after the sale of Fidelis Care, a managed care company founded by the Roman Catholic Church.
The foundation wanted to tackle the serious nursing deficit that existed before the pandemic and that was worse when first aid flooded with coronavirus patients, in particular with so -called safety network hospitals such as St. Barnabas who usually have a large number of patients who are on Medicaid or are uninsured.
The foundation focused on its subsidies to hard -suppressed hospitals that wanted to apply for accreditation programs for nurses. It said that St. Barnabas and 12 other institutions, including Calvary Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center, both in the Bronx, would use Grant Money for programs under the supervision of the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
“There are no safety nets that do these programs because they are expensive programs,” said Perlstein. “We cannot compete” with larger hospitals that are affiliated with medical schools “and have the financing to cover programs that need to be offered everywhere,” he said.
The hospitals that receive subsidies must undergo a rigorous assessment by the Income Center, an independent authority, to be certified. “We believe that there is a lot of value in the pursuit of accreditation,” said Anupa Fabian, Chief Research Officer of Mother Cabrini. That “will help hospitals place structures that lead to significant improvements in the well-being of nurses” and ultimately patient care.
Rebecca GrayStone, a senior vice -president of the Credentialing Center, said that Mother Cabrini’s subsidies were the most due to a private foundation for safety net organizations in the United States. “The $ 51 million, we believe, has the opportunity to absolutely transform care provision,” she said. “If you do not have nurses in a hospital whose well -being is cared for, whose working environment is suitable, hospitals do not run. What the patient brings to the front door of an institution, it is the nursing personnel who are allowed to them.”
Mgr. Gregory Mustaciuolo, the Chief Executive of the Foundation, stated it simpler: “You can’t have health care without nurses.” Nevertheless, he called the subsidies ‘a drop in the bucket’, and added that they ‘will not solve the problem in any way’.
Other officials from the foundation said that stress and burnout had contributed to the shortage of nurses. They quoted a statewide study of the Center for Health Workforce studies at the University of Albany, which showed that just under half of the nurses surveyed reported symptoms in 2023. The center also discovered that retirement was not the only factor in staff shortages. Younger nurses also went further: about 15 percent of hospital nurses between 20 and 39 were planning to leave their current jobs within 12 months.
Perlstein said that the accreditation program in St. Barnabas would include “shared board and involvement” with nurses. The program also offers more opportunities for career development for nurses “who want to be a little more or something else,” he said.
Nadine Williamson, a senior vice -president of 1199 Seiu, the trade union that represents nurses in St. Barnabas, called the subsidy ‘surprising’ and ‘historical’. She notes that nurses were one of the lowest paid in the city there, added that the accreditation program should help in recruiting and retaining nurses.
“If the nurses feel good, they will give high -quality health care,” she said, “and the moral of the nurses lifts the entire team.”
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An external official will take the lead over Rikers, a judge recommends
A federal judge seized control On Tuesday of the jails of Rikers Island, who have been full with violence and dysfunction.
The judge, Laura Taylor Swain, ordered the appointment of an external official “authorized to take all the required actions” to reverse Rikers. The efforts of mayor Eric Adams to keep the lockups said that the new remediation manager would not be a city employee and report it directly to her.
The city had succeeded in holding control over Rikers and struggled to show progress, because critics of the system rolled up into a recipient to lead. According to lawyers in a Class-Action right case, the conditions have not been improved and the Federal Monitor who has regularly issued reports on Rikers for almost a decade. In November, the judge found the city contemptuously because of not stealing violence and excessive violence in prison.
The ruling of Judge Swain was another blow to Adams, who runs as independent after the waste of the busy Democratic field after re -election. He was sued last year for federal accusations of corruption. But a judge rejected the charges last month after the Ministry of Justice said that continuing with the case would prevent the mayor from realizing his promise to cooperate with President Trump’s action against immigration.
The Legal Aid Society and a private law firm that represented people who were locked up with Rikers had asked Judge Swain to take away the control of the city about Rikers and to install a recipient who would only answer her. They said that the recipient should have a broad authority that would extend to staff and the trade union contracts that encourage them.
The remediation manager will have “broad powers” that are comparable to those of the recipient looking for the claimants, the judge would have had.
The city wanted the commissioner of the correction department, Lynelle Maginley-Liddie, to accept another title as “Compliance Director” and would answer the court about issues such as safety and staff shortages while answering Adams about everything else.
A study by the New York Times in 2021 showed that guards were often stationed in inefficient ways that do not protect prisoners. Moreover, an unlimited policy for sick leave meant that the staff was often short -handed.
Adams said on Tuesday that the “problems with Rikers are in the making for decades.” He blamed a law that requires Rikers to be concluded by 2027 to prevent upgrades to the complex. The city is not expected to get that deadline.
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It was spring 1975. I was 23 and had been to New York for less than six months. I worked as a secretary at Artkraft Strauss and “The Sunshine Boys” filmed around the corner.
During a lunch hour, Walter Matthau appeared in a poor overcoat. I gathered all my courage and asked him for a signature.
Almost smiling he asked my name.
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My mother still had that signature when she died 13 years ago. I have it now.
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