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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Cynthia Walker, Registered Nurse at SUNY Downstate Medical Center
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Cynthia Walker, a registered nurse at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, testified about the importance of maintaining the hospital and its services for the Brooklyn community. She highlighted the hospital's crucial role in providing healthcare to underserved populations and its connection to the SUNY Medical College.
- The hospital serves a large number of patients, including 62,000 emergency room visits and 300,000 outpatient clients annually.
- Walker emphasized the financial challenges faced by the hospital due to serving uninsured, underinsured, and undocumented individuals.
- She stressed the need for continued education of policymakers about the negative impacts of hospital closures and service cuts on the central Brooklyn community.
Cynthia Walker
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Hi.
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My name is Cynthia Walker.
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I'm a registered nurse.
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Thank you.
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New York City Council Committee for these hearings going to hospital closures.
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I'm a registered nurse that's in the Downstate Medical Center in the telemetry unit.
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I've been there for 19 years.
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Summiedale State is dedicated to delivering a lot of services, core services, cardiac care, maternity, pediatric, as well as emergency services, which right now, they are about 62.
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1000 broken nights, who visit the emergency room each year.
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There's more than 12,000 inpatient and a and 300,000 outpatient clients each year.
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Suezia has faced financial hardship due to the nature of the population it serves, including uninsured, underinsured, undocumented individuals, and 20% of the population in Brooklyn living in poverty, according to US Census Bureau.
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There is continued effort to educate our policy makers and the community about significant shortcomings of these closures, cuts and services, and that would affect central Brooklyn the central Brooklyn community.
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And the negative impact that disclosure would have on the students as well at the student medical at the SUNY Medical College without the hospital, you know, if that you can't you can't go to college.
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You know, you can go to college, but they they tie together the college and the hospital.
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They tie they tie we we have a college with all types of disciplines there.
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Brooklyn, the South State Coalition, was composed of AFT, passed different unions, and our and community groups, and elected state representatives.
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And we're dedicated in organizing and educating residents of Brooklyn, and the need on the need to maintain and approach Suni Dao State, and we'll continue to educate policymakers at the state at several levels.
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The Suni Dao State should be maintained.
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Thank you.
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Your time expired.
Cynthia Walker
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And central residents of Central Polk are need additional investment and support.
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We have diversion because kings were closed.
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So for for people for them to say that we could just go to king's county.
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That's all this information because since King's book has closed, we've had diversion and to be downstate, and as well as king king's county has also had diversion due to every population and emergency role.
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So we need to definitely keep working together collaboratively to keep sleep downstairs.
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But I think