Foot Care at Your Doorstep
After 40 years of private practice in Greenwich Village, I have decided to focus on seeing patients in their homes. For the past 30 years, […]
Home Care Starts With Love (Part One)
By Gregory Solometo Since founding a concierge home care agency (Alliance Homecare) ten years ago after caring for my grandmother with Alzheimer’s, I’ve learned a […]
Joy’s Senior Health Tips: Winter Safety
By Joy Pape, FNP-C CDE CILC Since it is still winter, I have listed my favorite tips to ensure a safe season during the cold […]
State Cuts Hospital Beds, But Not Need
By George Capsis The four crowded, money-losing, and City-owned Brooklyn hospitals that serve that community’s very poorest are projected to lose $2 billion over the […]
Demand Your Hospital Now
Pier 40 Has Been Offered to Locate the New West Village Hospital (You need to say you want it!) By George Capsis “I am not […]
We Have Our Hospital
By George Capsis “Offices would be something that would generate revenue,” offered Hudson River Park Trust (HRPT) Director, Madelyn Wils in talking about what to […]
Let’s Build Our Own Hospital and Show Politicians How Democracy Works
By Dr. David Kaufman As our nation heads toward the abyss, led by—pushed by—a pathologic narcissist, who is protected and supported by billionaire oligarchs and […]
Letter from Dr. Alec Pruchnicki, MD
This letter is part of an ongoing conversation around the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) and the closure of St. Vincent’s Hospital. It […]
Take Another Look at Contributing Factors to St. Vincent’s Demise
Dear Editors: Like Dr. Pruchnicki, we lament the loss of St. Vincent’s Hospital and question what it says about our City that the hospital was […]
Does It Make Sense to Operate Not-for-Profit Hospitals for Profit?
By Andrew Buemi The following piece summarizes a November 2016 report in The American Journal of Medicine detailing the growing profits of not-for-profit hospitals in […]
VID ASKS FOR A HOSPITAL
Money can’t, or shouldn’t, be the only consideration when it comes to health care. In fact, we should not be placing a monetary value on […]
Seniors…Don’t Wait!!!
By Joy Pape FNP-C CDE CILC I never thought it would happen to me but, one day, last week, I couldn’t bend over and touch […]
When You Close a Hospital You Kill a Medical Community
By George Capsis “The recent article in WestView News about the closing of Beth Israel really needed the entire paper, cover-to-cover, to uncover what’s really […]
When They Closed My Hospital, My Physician Left: Lamenting Beth Israel and Local Healthcare of Yore
The recent article in WestView News about the closing of Beth Israel really needed the entire paper, cover-to-cover, to uncover what’s really happening. I’m a […]
Joy’s Senior Seasonal Nutrition Buys of the Month
By Joy Pape, FNP-C CDE CILC As vegetables and fruits continue to come into season, they offer seniors the tastiest and most nutritional buys for […]
Healthy and Happy Holidays
By Joy Pape, FNP-C CDE CILC Do you want to be healthy and enjoy the holidays? Of course! What we all need are strategies to […]
Peanut Allergy: Not a Trifling Matter
By M. Zakir Sabry, MD I love peanuts—salted, plain, spiced, honey-glazed—you name it. I love them all. I have peanut butter in my fridge, mixed […]
Mount Sinai Ends Expected Half-Billion Dollar Loss By Closing Beth Israel
By George Capsis On a dark, chilly, rainy Thursday October 27th evening in the large shabby 1927 Mason Hall, now part of Baruch College on […]