QUESTION
Do New York City Health and Hospitals (H+H) residents receive food vouchers, and how are the amounts determined?
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New York City Health and Hospitals (H+H) residents do receive food vouchers, but the amount varies based on the program and whether the day is considered a regular day or includes overnight shifts.
- The amounts differ for on-call days compared to regular days.
- Each program within H+H has a different voucher system, and there are no universal daily or weekly voucher amounts.
- Hospital cafeterias have been phased out, removing a previous social and dining option for doctors and nurses.
- Voucher amounts are also influenced by the resident’s shift schedule.
- Efforts are made to maintain a selection of healthy food options available for purchase at hospitals despite the absence of cafeterias.
Mercedes Narcisse
1:51:32
Do H and H residents receive food vouchers?
1:51:34
If so, how much money do they receive daily or weekly for
Mitch Katz
1:51:39
It depends greatly on the program and even the the usually, the it's not a daily.
1:51:46
It's an amount different when you're on call from the amounts on a regular day.
1:51:52
So if you're sort of having a regular day, the amount you're gonna get is very different than if you're overnight, and each program is currently different.
1:52:02
And they all work on voucher systems rather than sadly the age that you and I trained in where there is a hospital calf nurture, no more hospital cafeterias.
1:52:14
I know it's really it was a and it was a nice doctors and nurses would hang out together.
1:52:19
It was a social thing.
1:52:20
It was a dating thing.
Mercedes Narcisse
1:52:21
Oh, no.
1:52:22
It's
Mitch Katz
1:52:22
no I
Mercedes Narcisse
1:52:23
didn't say yesterday, dating.
1:52:24
I said yesterday, everything else.
1:52:27
Okay.
1:52:27
Go ahead.
Mitch Katz
1:52:29
It doesn't.
1:52:29
There's no social center to hospitals anymore.
1:52:32
There are no careful areas.
1:52:35
Yeah.
1:52:35
It's all gone.
Mercedes Narcisse
1:52:36
That was a fun thing.
Mitch Katz
1:52:37
I know.
1:52:38
It's terrible.
Mercedes Narcisse
1:52:39
She's a social worker, so she used to be around.
Mitch Katz
1:52:42
But we the people do get vouchers, and we try to maintain some selection of healthy food at the hospitals.
Mercedes Narcisse
1:52:53
That's a tough one for me.
1:52:55
They receive discount for meals, the purchase in their hospital, but you don't have no caffeine.
Mitch Katz
1:52:59
They get right to get value.
Mercedes Narcisse
1:53:01
To get vouchers to go.
1:53:02
And you cannot tell me the actual vouchers.
1:53:04
It's based on because programs
Mitch Katz
1:53:06
based on program based on what your shift is.
Mercedes Narcisse
1:53:11
Okay.
1:53:12
I'm shocked with that cafeteria things.
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I cannot go over it.
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But when because the foods are so expensive.
1:53:19
Because I heard one of the resident testify, after he finished paying his rent, he didn't have money to buy food, and then he went to the hospital and that offended that label just restricted for patient.
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And he took 1 knowing his occupation because he was hungry.
1:53:39
So we should not have our resident in that situation.
1:53:42
Alright.
1:53:42
He bothers me.
Mitch Katz
1:53:43
Great.
1:53:44
I Totally agree.
1:53:45
Well, I think that's why we all want a fair resolution to the resident contract.
Mercedes Narcisse
1:53:51
Okay.
1:53:52
I cannot ask you about cafeteria.
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I had so many question around cafeterias.
1:53:58
What time and everything.
1:53:59
Okay.
