CORRECTION: The headline on this article has been updated to clarify that Envisagenics is developing cancer therapies.
HOUSING CONTRACT: The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene awarded $2.8 million to Midtown nonprofit Lantern Community Services to provide congregate supportive housing services, according to a notice filed in the City Record on Monday. Lantern Community Services offers health care, employment assistance and education to homeless New Yorkers at 15 supportive housing projects across the city.
TRANSPLANT PROGRAM: NYU Langone has proposed to build a kidney transplant program at its Brooklyn hospital in Sunset Park, according to a certificate-of-need application filed to state health officials last week. If approved, the program would become the second kidney transplant program in Brooklyn, the first of which is offered at SUNY Downstate’s University Hospital. NYU estimates that it will perform 40 kidney transplants in the first year of the program’s operation and 100 procedures in year three.
NURSE STAFFING: Members of the New York State Nurses’ Association are scheduled to hold a rally at 12 p.m. today to call attention to what they say are unsafe staffing levels at Albany Medical Center. The state Health Department launched an investigation into the hospital after nurses filed staffing complaints documenting too many patients in their care in the intensive care unit, the union said. New York state law mandates that nurses in the ICU be assigned no more than two patients, but nurses at Albany Medical Center say they’ve had to care for three or four at a time.
Amanda D'Ambrosio , 2024-06-11 11:33:04
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