From the Daily News:
The state may be short of cash, but Albany has come to the rescue of a Queens hospital swamped by a recent spike in patient volume.
Despite a $16.2billion state budget gap, Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens in Long Island City has been tapped to receive $1 million in reimbursements from the state Health Department, said agency spokeswoman Claudia Hutton.
Like a number of other Queens hospitals, Mount Sinai has treated an increasing number of patients since St. John's Queens Hospital in Elmhurst and Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica closed at the end of February, after filing for bankruptcy.
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This is the hospital where I lay in a gurney in the hall for nearly a day while awaiting a room so I could undergo emergency surgery for a life-threatening condition that had to be corrected within 48 to 72 hours or else.
Imagine how many people will die because the staff will have to speed up triage and mistakes will occur. Imagine the discomfort of being in a loud hall while in the worst pain of your life.
It didn't occur to anyone when they decided to close St John's and Mary Immaculate, that this would be the outcome????
Will anyone think if this while they rubber stamp Vallone's cramming thousands more in Astoria?
Of course not.
You have been dependent so long on the pols telling you what is important and what is to be ignored, you have all but lost the ability to think for yourself, or do what is needed for your community's survival.
It didn't occur to anyone when they decided to close St John's and Mary Immaculate, that this would be the outcome????
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Don't be silly. Of course they thought about it.
They just know that no one will do anything about it.
lets go over to astorians.com (the self-proclaimed community website) and see if there is any concern:
umm ...lets ...see..
complaining about no Barnes & Noble bookstore (nitwits, the stores in your community have branches on Fordham Road, Pitkin Ave, and Jamaica Ave)
complaining about Bohemian Hall (for some reason they call it the 'beer garden', and must be the only people in the city to slam the place - yet another example of the clubhouse fingerprints on that site for they never got over that it was not developed and offers a real alternative to tiresome blocks of cafes after cafes)
nope ... sorry ... no mention....
I guess they are waiting for a pol to tell them if its important.
I never follow astorians.com, but if they have any complaints about Bohemian Hall they really should get the h@ll out of the neighborhood.
Bohemian Hall has been here for generations and is a quiet and well-run establishment. It is the last beer garden in the entire city.
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