Monday, May 20, 2024

News of CMH

Tomorrow night, 1199SEIU healthcare workers plan to show up in force at City Hall to ask the Common Council to pass a resolution supporting them in their struggle for a fair contract with liveable wages and better health benefits. The resolution, which can be viewed here, maintains that Columbia Memorial Health (CMH) is facing a crisis because it cannot maintain and recruit qualified staff. It also alleges that the situation exists because the CMH management team is refusing to negotiate the competitive wages and affordable comprehensive health benefits needed to retain and attract workers. 

On a separate but related subject, at a "town hall" meeting last week, CMH announced it had received two $5 million grants and shared plans for the "reinvention of the main CMH campus"--that's the hospital here in Hudson. The plans involve making the focus of the hospital emergency, medicine, and behavioral health, which apparently means expanding psychiatric services here. It also involves retrofitting the Greene Medical Arts building across the river in Jefferson Heights as an "ambulatory hub" where all same-day medical procedures would be performed. The images below show the Greene Medical Arts building as it is now and as it is envisioned after the retrofitting.


For now, that's all the information Gossips has to share.
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Update: This item from Porcupine Soup provides more information about one of the $5 million grants received by Columbia Memorial Health: "State awards CMH $5M to add 23 more psychiatric beds."
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1 comment:

  1. John K. FriedmanMay 21, 2024 at 10:53 AM

    The monetization of, and profit-taking around, health care continues and communities suffer for it. I do note that the professional office building abutting CMH is owned by a medical REIT. If Albany Med does decide to relocate all of CMH's outpatient diagnostics to Catskill, I hope the hospital -- and not a for-profit REIT -- owns the property. The only way to save these institutions is to maintain them as institutions, not balance sheet entries for private equity funds.

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