The US Senate’s approximately $1 trillion bipartisan traditional infrastructure legislative package provides funding for transportation, water, broadband, power infrastructure and other investments. Congressional leaders aim to advance the bipartisan infrastructure legislation—assuming it retains enough support—in concert with a separate “human” infrastructure budget reconciliation bill that will likely contain health provisions. We are pleased that the...

During an Association for a Better New York (ABNY) virtual conversation this morning (GNYHA is an ABNY member), New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that all “patient-facing healthcare workers” at State-run hospitals will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine (see attached press release). The Governor also encouraged all hospitals in New York to “do...

In April, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) announced the transfer of authority to recognize “non-standard training” (NST) programs from the ABMS to the ACGME as it concerns the J-1 visa program. The ECFMG administers the J-1...

GNYHA would like to engage our members to educate your physicians about how health insurance companies are increasingly interfering with the doctor-patient relationship and physician judgment. Once educated, we would like to engage physicians in targeted advocacy to help amplify hospital opposition to objectionable payer practices. This effort will be totally coordinated with hospital management...

The hospital clinical staffing bill that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law on June 6 requires hospitals to develop and implement a clinical staffing plan for registered nurses (RNs) and other members of the frontline team. Every hospital in New York must create a clinical staffing committee to collaboratively design the hospital’s clinical...

The purpose of this document is to provide healthcare facilities with an overview of potential citywide operations during a coastal storm, including planning assumptions and timelines as well as specific considerations for coastal storms. This document was prepared by GNYHA, NYC Emergency Management, NYC Department of Health, NYS Department of Health, NYC Health + Hospitals,...

The 2021 North Atlantic Coastal Storm Season officially begins June 1, with the greatest potential for storms in our region from August through October. If a coastal storm is expected in the New York region, GNYHA will send all members e-mails with forecast information, government agency planning actions, and contact information for GNYHA staff. GNYHA...

GNYHA recently released the latest edition of the GME Data Brief. Each edition of the series highlights important graduate medical education (GME) and physician workforce data findings for GNYHA members and other interested stakeholders. This GME Data Brief examines the National Resident Matching Program’s Main Residency Match results, which are published in a report following...

GNYHA submitted the attached testimony to the State Senate Committees on Aging, Health, and Labor for today’s hearing on continuing care workforce issues. The testimony highlights our continuing care members’ extraordinary commitment to serving vulnerable New Yorkers, high performance on quality metrics, and workforce investments. The testimony also identifies the key workforce challenges as your...