HIV Is Increasingly a Disease of Aging in New York
Infectious DiseaseHIV Is Increasingly a Disease of Aging — Here’s What That Actually Changes For most of its history, HIV care was built around a single, urgent question: how do you keep someone alive. Effective antiretroviral therapy has answered that question well enough that a different one has taken its place — how do you manage […]
Hepatitis C Is Curable. New York Isn’t Close to Eliminating It.
New York HealthcareHepatitis C Is Curable. New York Still Isn’t Close to Eliminating It. Hepatitis C isn’t like HIV. It’s not a lifelong condition managed with daily medication — for most patients, it’s cured outright, typically within 8 to 12 weeks of direct-acting antiviral treatment. New York has had an official state plan to eliminate it as […]
Why Language Access Matters Most in Brooklyn OB/GYN Care
New York HealthcareWhy Language Access Matters More in OB/GYN Than in Most Other Specialties in Brooklyn Brooklyn is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the country — 45% of residents speak a language other than English at home, and that diversity is intensely concentrated by neighborhood rather than spread evenly across the borough. That much […]
Where You Give Birth in NYC Shapes Your C-Section Odds
New York HealthcareWhere You Give Birth in NYC Shapes Whether You Get a C-Section New York’s C-section rate is high, rising relative to the rest of the country, and — more importantly for anyone actually choosing a hospital — wildly inconsistent from one facility to the next. Understanding why requires setting aside the most intuitive explanation, because […]
Why There’s No Federal Physical Therapy Shortage Area
New York HealthcareWhy There’s No Such Thing as a Federally Designated Physical Therapy Shortage Area Every other clinical shortage this site has written about has a government paper trail behind it. North Carolina’s dental deserts show up in federal HPSA data. Physician shortages in rural counties get scored, tracked, and tied directly to loan repayment eligibility. Physical […]
NYC’s Top Physical Therapy & Rehab Hospitals, Compared
New York HealthcareNYC’s Top Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Hospitals, Compared If you’re trying to figure out where to go for physical therapy or rehabilitation in New York City, the real question usually isn’t whether care is available — it’s which of a handful of well-known institutions is actually the right fit for what you’re dealing with. HSS, […]
Brooklyn Physical Therapy: Good Coverage, Real Access Gap
New York HealthcareNew York Covers Physical Therapy Generously. Getting an Appointment Is a Different Story. New York’s Medicaid program and its physical therapy laws are, on paper, more patient-friendly than most states’. That’s genuinely true. What’s also true is that coverage on paper and an actual appointment are two different things — and in Brooklyn specifically, the […]
Director of Nutrition Services: Clinical or Foodservice?
New York HealthcareDirector of Nutrition Services: Clinical Leadership Role or Foodservice Operations Role? “Director of Nutrition Services” doesn’t mean one job. Depending on the employer, it can describe a clinical leadership position built around patient care, or an operations role built around running a hospital’s food service infrastructure — cafeteria, catering, vending, retail. Both are legitimate, credentialed […]
Why Brooklyn Is Central to NYC’s Maternal Mortality Gap
New York HealthcareWhy Brooklyn Is at the Center of NYC’s Black Maternal Mortality Crisis New York State has made real, measurable progress on maternal mortality overall — climbing from 46th in the nation in 2010 to 17th for 2018 through 2022. That improvement has not reached Black mothers. Over the same period during which the state’s overall […]
Why Brooklyn Carries the Heaviest HIV Burden in NYC
Infectious DiseaseWhy Brooklyn Carries the Heaviest HIV Burden in NYC New York City has spent two decades making genuine, measurable progress against HIV. New diagnoses citywide are still down more than 70% since 2001. That progress, though, has stalled in the last two years, and it has never been distributed evenly across the five boroughs. Brooklyn, […]