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Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Nine city hospitals have spent millions of dollars less on community investments than they receive in tax breaks, according to a report released this week by the [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN New York is poised to unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid money for stays in psychiatric hospitals and residential treatment facilities. The federal government generally [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Harry Weil, 38 Director of public programs and special projects, Green-Wood Cemetery Harry Weil spends his days among the dead, but he says he wouldn't have it [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN April Koh, 30 CEO, Spring Health April Koh recalls a lot of guesswork while searching for the best solution for the mental health struggles that took root [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN A boom in digital health investments has enabled millions of tech-savvy patients to address their mental health with virtual appointments or digital exercises in lieu of spending [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Dan Brillman, 38 Co-founder and CEO, Unite Us Dan Brillman's service in the Air Force took him as far as Iraq and Afghanistan, and it led him [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN AND CARA EISENPRESS The city's health care workforce left prepandemic levels in the dust as it continued its steady growth through last month, buoyed largely by gains [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN The collision of inflation and increasing health care utilization will drive health-benefit costs up roughly 10% next year for employers and insurers globally and up 6.5% across [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Brenda Rosen has been thinking about homelessness since she was 9 years old, when a fire ravaged her family's apartment. Thankfully neighbors lobbied the landlord to place [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Hurricane-related flooding poses a greater threat to hospital capacity in the New York metropolitan region than in any other metro area along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Tucked into one of Nikhil Krishnan's recent newsletters is a photograph of Hillary Clinton glancing distressingly at a kitchen in a public housing unit, a visit paid [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Months before Martial Simon pushed Michelle Go to her death in front of a subway train, his mind had been seized by an unusual toothache. Simon was [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN NEW YORK CAN IMPROVE its mental health care system for people who are homeless and living with serious mental illness with more housing, more hospital beds and [...]

Byline: JACQUELINE NEBER and MAYA KAUFMAN Insurance and medical providers said a state bill that could expand the damages recoverable in wrongful-death lawsuits against hospitals and health care organizations would [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Hospitals across New York largely failed to reach consensus with nurses and ancillary-service workers in their final clinical staffing plans submitted to the state Department of Health, [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN In July a group set up tables outside Maimonides Medical Center with the battle cry 'Save Maimonides.' People beckoned passersby to sign a petition, started five weeks [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN And EDDIE SMALL The Allure Group, the controversial nursing home operator, has purchased the former Victory Memorial Hospital site in Bay Ridge for $160 million, records show. [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN For as long as eight years, some pregnant patients at Weill Cornell Medicine's OB/GYN practice received a letter warning them against preparing birth plans, the term for [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Prem Tumkosit serves as a managing director of Merck's Global Health Innovation Fund, where he's responsible for identifying investment opportunities in digital health, specifically 'next horizon' technologies. [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN LEONI RUNGE, 29 Founder and CEO, Zaya Care Leoni Runge was working in product management in Switzerland when she witnessed friends on two continents hitting the same [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN LIESEL VAIDYA, 27 Co-founder and chief technology officer, Leda Health Bolstering access to health care has been a project of Liesel Vaidya's since her childhood in Kathmandu, [...]

Byline: Maya Kaufman and Jacqueline Neber Local hospitals and health systems are launching and expanding their own violence intervention programs, leveraging their role as trauma responders to not only heal [...]

Byline: Maya Kaufman Consolidation activity among local digital health startups is poised to accelerate the rest of this year, even as private financing is getting hit, experts said during a [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Dr. Thomas Lo can still taste the cucumber salad that altered the course of his career. The perfect balance of numbing Sichuan peppercorn oil, combined with the [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Heart disease is the leading cause of death in New York, and two new reports from the state Department of Health shed light on the hospitals with [...]

Byline: Maya Kaufman ANTONIO REYNOSO, Brooklyn Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso has lofty goals as the successor to now-Mayor Eric Adams. His target is the city statistic that Black women [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Dr. Steven Corwin, New YorkuPresbyterian's chief executive, earned nearly $10.7 million in 2020, making him the highest-paid hospital executive in the metropolitan area during the first year [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Northwell Health recently announced the launch of its Center for Maternal Health to address the disproportionate rate of pregnancy-related health risks and maternal mortality among Black women. [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Planned Parenthood of Greater New York has completed a $18.6 million overhaul of its Brooklyn and Bronx health centers that will enable it to see thousands more [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Maimonides Medical Center announced on March 25 that it has launched a health system, Maimonides Health, as the umbrella organization for its three hospitals and network of [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN New York-Presbyterian/Columbia is seeking state approval for a $53 million project to build two radiology and imaging facilities on its Washington Heights campus. The new sites, which [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN, ANNE MICHAUD AND EDDIE SMALL The budget proposals from the New York Assembly and Senate--known as one-house resolutions--pave the way for state budget negotiations to begin in [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Stakeholders are advocating for improvements to the state Department of Health's data practices after an audit released last Tuesday found that it had understated the number of [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN City Councilwoman Linda Lee has spent decades working to improve access to mental health care and social services for New Yorkers, first as a camp counselor for [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN In the weeks before Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn closed as a full-service hospital, in the summer of 2021, the ceiling sprung leaks that sent water [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Modern medicine means a cancer diagnosis is no certain death sentence, but to residents of the Rockaways, there is one certain side effect: an hours-long commute to [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Activists and lawmakers are pushing the state to extend health coverage to an estimated 154,000 low-income New Yorkers who are uninsured because of their immigration status. The [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN NoMad-based fertility startup Kindbody has signed a deal to acquire Vios Fertility Institute, doubling its national footprint of fertility clinics to 26 and propelling its valuation to [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Local health and life sciences startups raised a record $9 billion in 2021, up 150% from the previous year, according to a report released Tuesday by the [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN The New York City Council voted last Tuesday to approve the New York Blood Center's rezoning proposal for its Upper East Side research facility, clearing the nonprofit's [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN Dr. Alexi Nazem co-founded Nomad Health, a digital marketplace helping health care workers find temporary job placements, in 2015 to address a problem he'd experienced firsthand. The [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN #33 NEW EMMA WOLFE Chief of staff and deputy mayor for administration, New York mayor's office 2021u2022 BUDGET: $98.6 billion IMPACT Wolfe is a BAM board member. [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN #42 NEW KIARA ST. JAMES Co-founder and executive director, New York Transgender Advocacy Group 2019u2020 BUDGET $260,000 IMPACT She is a board member of the Black Women's [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN #35 2019 RANK: 31 PAT WANG President and CEO, Healthfirst 2020 REVENUE $12 billion IMPACT Wang serves on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission as well as on [...]

Byline: AMANDA GLODOWSKI AND MAYA KAUFMAN Rankings tout the best hospitals to receive cancer care or treatment of a heart attack. They recommend where to go for a hip or [...]

Byline: MAYA KAUFMAN The advertisements beckon: 'Just one pint of your healthy blood can save up to three lives.' 'An hour of your time can mean a lifetime for someone [...]