Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Senator John Boozman (R-AR) introduced today the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019. Strongly supported by GNYHA, the legislation would increase the number of residency positions that would be eligible for Medicare direct graduate medical education (DGME) and indirect medical education (IME) support….

GNYHA is proud to open the application period for the 2019 Summer Enrichment Program (SEP), an internship that promotes racial and ethnic diversity in health care management. This summer marks the program’s 21st anniversary. SEP is a 10-week internship during which interns assigned to senior management staff at GNYHA member facilities gain firsthand experience with…

I am proud to invite member hospitals and health systems to participate in GNYHA’s 2019 Summer Enrichment Program (SEP), an internship that promotes racial and ethnic diversity in health care management. Participating hospitals would sponsor interns—graduate and undergraduate students who are studying health care management—from June to mid-August. This summer will mark the program’s 21st…

1199SEIU and GNYHA continue to make our case for an exemption from Introduction 1253-2018, which aggressively limits large buildings’ greenhouse gas emissions. Hospitals and caregivers are committed to doing their part to combat climate change, but this bill sets impossible standards that would burden New York City hospitals with tens of millions of dollars in…

The City Council is considering a bill to aggressively limit large buildings’ greenhouse gas emissions. It would severely harm NYC hospitals—despite their good-faith efforts to combat climate change—by setting unrealistic standards and saddling them with tens of millions of dollars in penalties. Hospitals, like rent-regulated buildings, should be exempted from the bill’s penalties to protect New Yorkers’ access…

The Affordable Care Act significantly reduced Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) funding under the assumption that increasing the number of uninsured Americans would reduce hospital uncompensated care—and therefore the need for DSH funding. This essential funding for safety net hospitals is scheduled to be drastically cut on October 1, 2019. GNYHA’s top Federal legislative priority…