The Future of NYC H+H Depends on Us. As you have probably heard by now, New York City Health + Hospitals faces a $1.8 billion financial crisis, which left unaddressed, threatens the very existence of the system, our… Read More

A very well attended meeting of our System Wide Collaboration Council (SWCC) convened on June 22nd at Gouverneur Medical Center.  This meeting marks the completion of the first round of SWCC meetings which have occurred monthly since November,… Read More

Executive leadership from all NYC H + H facilities and their Doctors Council SEIU member counterparts convened at NYC H+H/Gouverneur for our System Wide Collaboration Council (SWCC) meeting.  The focus of the System-Wide meetings continues to be to… Read More

Dr. Aycan Turkmen, M.D., Doctors Council 2nd Vice-President, System-wide Collaboration Council (SWCC) Co-Chair and doctor from Coney Island Hospital, and NYC Health + Hospitals Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Ross Wilson, M.D. convened the third meeting of our SWCC… Read More

On December 11, 2015, the second meeting of the System-Wide Collaboration Council met at Governeur Medical Center.  70 leaders from our health system continued to chart a new course of deep collaboration dedicated to creating the best patient… Read More

In mid-November, Doctors Council Delegates from the Diagnostic and Treatment Centers- DTCs- (Belvis, Cumberland, East New York, Gouverneur, Morrisania, and Renaissance) met with Dr. Walid Michelen, CEO and CMO, for Gotham Health and facility Chief Medical Officers. The… Read More

A Primer on the “Collaboration Councils” in our new Collective Bargaining Agreement By a major collective effort through our Union, we have been able to establish a new and lasting opportunity to achieve groundbreaking improvement for our patients… Read More