Shedding new light on overdose prevention centers
Evidence from other countries that have overdose prevention centers has shown promising effects as far as overdose mortality rates and other health outcomes.
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Evidence from other countries that have overdose prevention centers has shown promising effects as far as overdose mortality rates and other health outcomes.
Caveats in draft language to raise workers’ wages each year through 2027, when their pay rate would be indexed to rise with inflation, have raised at least a few eyebrows.
Today, the Council will introduce a mental health roadmap of its own, just before Mayo r Eric Adams is expected to release an executive budget that will elaborate on the financial aspects of his plan.
City officials still haven’t released any data on the program’s performance and outcomes in the current fiscal year, and earlier figures indicate that B-HEARD is falling short of its promised impact.
Hochul’s budget already pledged $72 million for uncompensated care at the three facilities, plus $150 million in hospital capital projects.
Roughly 100,000 New Yorkers would be newly uninsured, according to preliminary estimates.
Evergreen Health, along with Heritage Health and Housing, allege the long-planned effort to merge Medicaid pharmacy benefits under a single state program violates federal law and is discriminatory.
The system is bidding a gradual goodbye to the many tents and vans deployed to bring tests, vaccines and treatment closer to where New Yorkers live.
The union wanted to reopen and renegotiate its master contract, which covers close to 80,000 health care workers at some 90 hospitals and nursing homes, way ahead of schedule.
The carveout would enable Medicaid enrollees to visit the pharmacy of their choosing and prevent pharmacy benefit managers from siphoning money from Medicaid that would otherwise go to pharmacies.