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March 24, 2009
Atlantic Yards YES! Mental Health Services NO!!
While the City blames the State for cuts in mental health programs, both parties support massive subsidies for Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards arena and high rise megaproject.
City Room, [The NY Times], City Hospital System to Cut 400 Jobs
City officials said the job cuts were unavoidable and blamed the situation on a refusal by state leaders to increase Medicaid reimbursements to the hospital system.
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The elimination of programs is across the board: slated for the chopping block are four school-based mental health programs, four community clinics, three satellite pharmacies, two hospital-based case management programs, two mental-health day-treatment programs, and a hospital-based therapy program for tuberculosis patients. Three other hospital-based programs will be consolidated with reduced staffing for “greater efficiency.”The closings, and the layoffs, are to be in effect by June.
Posted by lumi at March 24, 2009 5:33 AM