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Gouverneur Health is Medicare and Medicaid certified, and has a 295-bed nursing facility with 24-hour care. [2] [3] It is one of the largest institutions in Lower Manhattan, [4] and the largest freestanding ambulatory care center in New York State. [5]
Amida Care is a New York Medicaid managed care health plan for those with HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions such as addiction, mental health issues, and homelessness. [1] The non-profit [2] was founded in 2003. [3] [4] One of its focuses is on members of the LGBTQ community [5] including transgender people.
Visiting Nurse Service office. Founded in 1893 by nursing pioneer Lillian D. Wald and Mary M. Brewster, VNS Health is one of the largest not-for-profit home- and community-based health care organizations in the United States, serving the five boroughs of New York City; Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties; and parts of upstate New York.
Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP) was incorporated in 1944 as the first health insurance plan for public service workers. [9] The company was founded by David M. Heyman with the support of New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who wanted to offer medical services to New Yorkers of “moderate means.” [10] HIP got its first members in 1947.
Fidelis Care was formed in 1993 as the NYC Catholic Health Plan Inc. [2] by the Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens, Inc. and the Diocese of Brooklyn to serve the poor and medically underserved. [5] In 1997, Fidelis expanded to Western New York with the acquisition of Better Health Plan, a Buffalo-based HMO. [6]
Medical schools in New York City include: . SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in Brooklyn; Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx; CUNY School of Medicine, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Cornell Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and New York University School of Medicine in Manhattan
Here are horror stories about super-rich tenants who can afford to buy luxury property in Manhattan but choose to rent instead
As an English colony, New York's social services were based on the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1598-1601, in which the poor who could not work were cared for in a poorhouse. Those who could were employed in a workhouse. The first Poorhouse in New York was created in the 1740s, and was a combined Poorhouse, Workhouse, and House of Corrections.