Health
Posted inLabor
Shahana Hanif, a leading progressive and the chair of the City Council’s disability committee, withdrew her support for the contentious “No More 24” bill.
Posted inAccessibility
Disabled New Yorkers Oppose Bill to End 24-Hour Shifts for Home Aides
The battle over the “No More 24” bill has pit workers’ rights against the needs of people who rely on round-the-clock care.
Posted inHealth
Vaccine Education Plan Approved by NYC Council
The move comes as rates of some childhood immunizations in the city are starting to lag.
Posted inLabor
Home Care Workers Launch Hunger Strike as 24-Hour Work Shifts Persist
The battle over 24-hour shifts has pitted the mostly immigrant women working in the home care industry against vulnerable patients who rely on round-the-clock care.
Posted inCity Government
Judge Slams City in Gay Couple’s IVF Discrimination Case
A class-action lawsuit wants gay men to receive the same IVF benefits as straight couples, lesbian couples and single women in New York’s municipal health plan.
Posted inHealth
New Cooling Tower Testing Rules Aim to Quell Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreaks
The new rules, which take effect next month, follow an outbreak last year that killed at least seven people in Harlem.
Posted inHow to New York
Losing Health Coverage Due to Trump Cuts? Your Guide on ‘Essential Plan’ Changes
About 450,000 New Yorkers are set to lose their health insurance July 1. Here’s what experts say you should do to prepare now.
Posted inJails and Prisons
Delayed Bellevue Jail Unit to Open as Rikers Med Facility is Shut
City plans to close aging jail hospital as long-delayed $241 million replacement launches.
Posted inHealth
Why Thousands of City Workers Could Lose NewYork-Presbyterian Coverage
Forty thousand civil servants and their families could lose health coverage at NewYork-Presbyterian amid a bitter dispute between the hospital network and insurer EmblemHealth.
Posted inHealth
How Federal Funding Cuts Will Cost 500,000 New Yorkers Their Health Insurance
The plan provides high-quality coverage to 1.7 million low-income people, but has now lost half its funding.

