New York Health Care Facilities Commission Expected To Recommend Closing At Least Nine Hospitals In The State, Other Changes

November 30, 2006 – 11:14 pm | posted in Primary Care, Public Health

The New York state Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century is scheduled to release its recommendations on Tuesday, which are expected to include plans to close some hospitals in the state, according to people briefed on the report, the New York Times reports. Recommendations will become law unless the state Legislature or Gov. George Pataki (R) reject all measures of the report. State officials cannot keep some of the recommendations and reject others under the law that created the commission. According to those who have been briefed on the report, the panel will recommend the closure of at least nine hospitals, including five in New York City. Several other hospitals would be converted to clinics or outpatient facilities, people familiar with the plan said. The commission’s plan includes eliminating about 4,100 of the state’s approximately 60,000 hospital beds, according to those familiar with the report. In addition, the report is expected to call for closing and reorganizing state nursing homes, as well as reconfiguring or merging several other hospitals, including three pairs of hospitals in New York City, people briefed on the recommendations said. The federal government has said it would provide $1.5 billion to help hospitals with short-term closing costs. The commission “tried to ensure that there were alternative hospitals available nearby” and considered the amount of services a hospital provided to low-income patients prior to suggesting that it close or reduce the number of beds, the Times reports (Cooper/Chan, New York Times, 11/28).

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