Rally to Protect Patient Care at Harlem Hospital
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The Doctors of Harlem Hospital are concerned about the future of patient care and patient services provided to the Harlem community. As of January 1, 2011 Harlem Hospital may discontinue providing vital patient care services. There is also a concern over short staffing of doctors, with 10% unfilled positions, nearly 10% of doctors being laid off and another potential 15% or more of doctors who may leave due to layoffs, removal of services and fear of declining patient care standards.
• Fewer Doctors mean longer wait times for appointments and longer wait times in clinics to see a Doctor.
• Fewer services will mean Harlem Hospital patients will have to travel to other hospitals in other
neighborhoods to receive vital services. Many may opt not to get treated at all due to having to travel.
• Patient services and physician positions lost may never again be filled or returned.
The total impact of these losses will negatively affect the quality and safe delivery of patient care in Harlem. Doctors are concerned about the long-term viability of Harlem Hospital.
HARLEM HOSPITAL NEEDS MORE DOCTORS NOT LESS.
Our patients need a Hospital that is adequately staffed. Our patients need more experienced and qualified Doctors not less. The Harlem community needs a fully staffed acute care Hospital capable of providing vital and necessary patient care services. Please join us:
For more information please contact Karen Jarrett at 212-532-7690 or at kjarrett@doctorscouncil.com
Doctor Advocacy
With unprecedented challenges for medicine where we work, in our communities, in our State Legislatures and in Congress, and with a historic opportunity for healthcare reform, your participation in the healthcare and patient care advocacy has become an essential part of practicing medicine.
| Join the Rapid Response Team |
This year, Congress will take action on meaningful health care reform, saving Medicaid from potential cuts, reauthorizing and expanding SCHIP, reducing medical school debt, the Employee Free Choice Act, and many other issues that impact doctors and their patients. When one of the issues comes up for a vote, we want to make sure legislators hear our voices immediately on behalf of our patients and ourselves.
To make sure Doctors Council SEIU is heard on these issues, we’re putting together a team of rapid responders.
Join the Rapid Response Team
Become Part of the Team and join now by sending your name, where you work, your cell, work and home phone numbers to info@doctorscouncil.com
What does it mean to be a rapid responder?
1.) We’ll keep in touch with you on developments relating to health care reform and other issues important to Doctors Council SEIU members through periodic email updates.
2.) Every so often, when a bill is pending in Congress, or when an important issue arises, we will send you an “action alert” by phone, email or text.
3.) We’ll ask you to take action, such as by making a call to a legislator, attending a rally or media event, signing a petition, or writing a letter to legislators or newspapers.
4.) We’ll then ask you to reach out to FIVE colleagues and ask them to do the same thing. (You don’t have to ask the same five people each time you receive an action alert.) Ask them to let you know when they’ve completed the action.
5.) Then report back to us and let us know how successful you and your colleagues were – it’s just that easy.
We know your schedules are incredibly busy, so this is a low-hassle, high-impact way for you to be involved in shaping local, state-wide and national policies in a way that makes a real difference and lets your voice be heard!
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Help Protect Patient Care NATIONALLY
by being active in the following organizations:
Health Care for America Now (HCAN)
Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a national grassroots campaign of more than 1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people dedicated to winning quality, affordable health care we all can count on. HCAN is building a national movement to win comprehensive health care reform by helping mobilize people in their communities to lobby their U.S. Senators and Representatives in Congress to stand up to the insurance companies and other special interest groups to achieve quality, affordable health care. HCAN believes that everyone in this country should have accessible, quality health care they can afford. HCAN is fighting for a uniquely American solution that gives you a guarantee of coverage and real choice: keep your private insurance plan or join a new public health insurance plan so you are no longer at the mercy of the private insurance industry.
National Physicians Alliance
The National Physicians Alliance is founded to restore physicians' primary emphasis on the core values of our profession: service, integrity, and advocacy. As a diverse physician community, the NPA works to improve health and well being, and to ensure equitable, affordable, high quality health care for all people.
Doctors for America
Doctors for America is a national grassroots organization that engages physicians in health reform efforts. The organization works to share physicians' ideas and experiences with Congress and the public in order to fashion and support the best possible solution to our current healthcare crisis. Doctors for America works to convey the ideas and experiences of physicians to achieve healthcare reform based on four key pillars: affordable coverage, expanded access to care, high quality care, and practice environments that allow physicians to focus on patient care.
Physicians for a National Health Program
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program. Their members and physician activists work toward a single-payer national health program in their communities. PNHP performs ground breaking research on the health crisis and the need for fundamental reform, coordinates speakers and forums, participates in town hall meetings and debates, contributes scholarly articles to peer-reviewed medical journals, and appears regularly on national television and news programs advocating for a single-payer system.
Help Protect Patient Care LOCALLY in Our Communities
by being active in the following organizations:
Commission on the Public’s Health System
CPHS was formed out of a strong belief that decisions about health care must include public input and address the diverse needs of communities. CPHS continues to be a strong coalition of city residents, community health advocates, health workers, and labor unions. CPHS remains committed to making sure that our public health system stays strong, that people have access to health services, and the public's voice on health care issues is heard.
Members of CPHS come from diverse communities, with a wide range of ideas, skills, education, and experiences. Whether you work in the health care system or simply use it, your concerns, your opinions, and your experiences need to be heard. CPHS is a strong advocate for the public health & hospital system; a strong voice for public health funding in the state & city budgets; a strong supporter of community organizations organizing in their neighborhoods; and a strong advocate for access to health care services regardless of ability to pay, language spoken, race and/or ethnicity, or diagnosis.
Citizen Action/ Illinois
Citizen Action/Illinois was formed to work on behalf of the public interest both in Illinois and Washington, DC and is built on a tradition of strong grassroots citizen organizations-- in labor, the communities, and in the progressive movement. Citizen Action/Illinois is the state's largest public interest organization and a progressive political coalition committed to creating social change both in Illinois and across the nation. The organization is based on several core values: a belief that every human has equal worth, that the purpose of our society is to allow its members to live meaningful and fulfilling lives, and that there is collective good beyond our individual interests. It seeks to promote and win public policies that reflect these values and embody social justice. The Emergency Network to Save Cook County Health Services is part of Citizen Action/ Illinois.