Health and Hospitals

Family sleeping pods were lined up in a giant tent at Floyd Bennett Field.

Migrant Crisis

Tent Shelter Guards Snatched Migrant Kids’ Scooters on Xmas Eve

Dec. 28, 2023, 4:55 a.m.Dec. 28, 2023, 12:27 p.m.

The children’s gifts were later returned by the private contractors, who a city spokesperson said acted professionally.

Migrant Crisis

Migrants Scramble as Clock On Shelter Stays Runs Out

Sept. 28, 2023, 5:10 a.m.Sept. 28, 2023, 11:20 a.m.

Faced with new deadlines to leave city shelters, some migrants are applying for new stays while others are reconsidering their decisions to settle in NYC.

How to New York

With COVID Surging, Here’s What You Need to Know About Tests, Treatments and Vaccines

Sept. 25, 2023, 6:50 p.m.Oct. 11, 2023, 12:42 p.m.

Can you still get Paxlovid for free? Where did all the COVID testing sites go? And how do you get the new vaccine?

Shelters

$2.1 Billion in Migrant-Related Contracts Sidestep Oversight, Despite Some Companies’ Checkered Records

Sept. 15, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Sept. 15, 2023, 9:32 a.m.

Medrite and Aron Security got $450 million to staff more than a dozen shelters under a shroud of secrecy. Even the city comptroller and Council are struggling to find out more as workers and residents clash.

Health and Hospitals

Legal Aid Sues to See Canceled Jail Medical Visits Info

Sept. 6, 2023, 5:17 p.m.Sept. 6, 2023, 5:18 p.m.

The city’s Correctional Health Services is covering up for the Department of Correction’s “incompetence,” the public defenders say.

Migrant Crisis

Tent Shelter for 1,000 Migrant Men Slated to Open at Creedmoor in August

July 26, 2023, 4:29 p.m.July 26, 2023, 4:29 p.m.

Officials and advocates all have pushed back on the plan, as the city’s shelter population swells to over 107,300.

Migrant Crisis

City Officials Seeking Private Contractors to Open New Migrant Shelters

July 25, 2023, 5:00 a.m.July 25, 2023, 12:43 p.m.

“Selected vendors must be able to provide full-scale project management ,” according to a Health and Hospitals request for proposals published Monday.

Migrant Crisis

New Migrant Shelter Expected To Become Largest Ever

July 11, 2023, 2:59 p.m.July 11, 2023, 4:48 p.m.

The Clinton Hill site will house more adults in a dormitory setting than at any previous shelter in New York City’s history.

Mount Sinai residents working at Elmhurst Hospital strike over pay parity.

Health and Hospitals

Elmhurst Hospital Doctors Strike, Protesting Pay Gap With Mount Sinai

May 22, 2023, 5:50 p.m.May 22, 2023, 8:30 p.m.

Medical residents on the picket line in Queens demand that Mount Sinai, which runs the residents’ program, compensate them on par with their Upper East Side peers.

An Elmhurst Hospital doctor attends a ceremony held by the Queens World Film Festival honoring health care workers.

Labor

Doctors at Elmhurst Hospital Vote to Authorize Strike, Following Jamaica and Flushing Peers

May 3, 2023, 2:03 p.m.May 3, 2023, 5:11 p.m.

Actions pre-approved by interns and residents who staff three Queens hospitals could see physicians walk off the job in New York City for the first time in a generation.

Health and Hospitals

Tent Shelter Guards Snatched Migrant Kids’ Scooters on Xmas Eve

Migrants Scramble as Clock On Shelter Stays Runs Out

With COVID Surging, Here’s What You Need to Know About Tests, Treatments and Vaccines

$2.1 Billion in Migrant-Related Contracts Sidestep Oversight, Despite Some Companies’ Checkered Records

Legal Aid Sues to See Canceled Jail Medical Visits Info

Tent Shelter for 1,000 Migrant Men Slated to Open at Creedmoor in August

City Officials Seeking Private Contractors to Open New Migrant Shelters

New Migrant Shelter Expected To Become Largest Ever

Elmhurst Hospital Doctors Strike, Protesting Pay Gap With Mount Sinai

Doctors at Elmhurst Hospital Vote to Authorize Strike, Following Jamaica and Flushing Peers

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