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New York State Department of Health Code, Section 405, also known as the Libby Zion Law, is a regulation that limits the amount of resident physicians' work in New York State hospitals to roughly 80 hours per week. [1] The law was named after Libby Zion, the daughter of author Sidney Zion, who died in 1984 at the age of 18.
The cost of living in the city has forced many New Yorkers to opt out of insurance because of the high costs. [citation needed] New Yorkers living in low-income communities or who are unemployed have limited access to quality healthcare. [12] The NYC Health + Hospitals program attempts to improve healthcare availability for these residents. [13]
Metropolitan Hospital Center was founded in September 1875 as the Homeopathic Hospital. [5] It was established by the New York City Department of Public Charities and Correction on Wards Island. The island already had other hospitals dating to at least 1847. [6] [7] The new hospital was soon known as the Ward's Island Homeopathic Hospital. [8]
A 70-year-old Long Island woman allegedly turned her kitchen into an illicit dentist office – disturbingly extracting five teeth from a trusting patient who paid her nearly $2,000, prosecutors said.
Topping the new laws that go into effect on Jan. 1 is the state's new paid pre-natal leave policy, allowing pregnant employees to take 20 hours of paid leave for a long list of pregnancy-related ...
NYU Langone Health is an integrated academic health system located in New York City, New York, United States.The health system consists of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, both part of New York University (NYU), and more than 300 locations throughout the New York City Region and Florida, including six inpatient facilities: Tisch Hospital ...
The State Emigrant Refuge and Hospital was a New York State immigration complex located on Wards Island in New York City. Established in 1847, it primarily consisted of a public shelter and a hospital , later known as the Verplanck State Emigrant Hospital , both of which served recent immigrant arrivals to the Port of New York . [ 1 ]
Rebecca Wheeler, a professor at Christopher Newport University and a language researcher for the last three decades, is telling me why her job is so fraught. “Linguists have this saying: ‘As we see a people, so we see their language; as we see a language, so we see its people,’” she says.