RUSHVILLE (August 18, 2015) - Rep. Tom Reed met last Wednesday with leaders of rural health care centers who want to remind him and other elected officials of the critical needs they meet in their communities, and their concerns about changes in federal funding structures that will impact the way they care for patients.
Mary Zelazny, CEO of Finger Lakes
On Tuesday, August 11, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced that HHS has awarded $169 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 266 new health center sites in 46 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico for the delivery of comprehensive primary health care services in communities that need them most.
The awards were
The Health Department is currently investigating an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the South Bronx. The Health Department is actively investigating and is testing water from cooling towers and other potential sources in the area to determine the source of the outbreak. New Yorkers with respiratory symptoms, such as fever, cough, chills and muscle
While the NYS Legislature’s last scheduled day of session was June 17, non-health issues such as rent control and mayoral control of schools kept policymakers in Albany until late evening on June 23. For a brief recap of health care-related highlights of the 2014-15 session prepared by Brown & Weinraub, PLLC, click here.
Both the House and the Senate Appropriations Committees have approved their Labor, Health, and Human Services (LHHS) bills for FY 2016. The House LHHS bill contains the full Health Center Program request for FY 2016: a discretionary funding level of $1.5 billion, combined with the $3.6 billion made available in H.R. 2, for a total of $5.1 billion. The
On Friday, June 26, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced the FY2015 Health Center Expanded Services (ES) HRSA-15-153 supplemental funding opportunity. Applications are due in EHB by Monday, July 20, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. Instructions are available here.
Approximately $350 million in ES funding is available through formula-based
The NYS 2015 legislative session, marked by the indictments of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, has been a difficult one. Scheduled to end last Wednesday, June 17, the session is currently in overtime as lawmakers continue to negotiate a number of outstanding issues. Governor Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie
HealthyHearts NYC: Primary Care Partnerships to Advance Heart Health, a collaboration of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Department of Population Health, the Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS) and the Primary Care Information Project (PCIP) of New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH), has been