Q&A
Discussion on hospital closures and innovations
2:32:06
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139 sec
Council Member Carlina Rivera engages in a discussion with Chatodd Floyd from GNYHA about hospital closures and innovations in healthcare delivery. They discuss the reasons behind hospital changes and the need for flexibility in healthcare systems.
- Rivera questions GNYHA's stance on hospital closures being potentially positive
- Floyd clarifies GNYHA's position on hospital closures vs. service reductions
- They discuss examples of healthcare innovations and their impact on hospital services
Carlina Rivera
2:32:06
In your testimony, you mention that there could be good reasons for hospitals to close.
2:32:14
And you said, innovation, and you mentioned some other things.
2:32:17
I mean, that's not the case for a lot of these hospitals, though many of them are in financial constraints.
2:32:24
So I thought that was interesting to bring up for these particular examples that were sort of focused on.
2:32:30
I know we're focused on hospital closures for 2 in particular, downstate, and Mount Sinai but Israel continue to come up But not right now, but I'd love to see some examples of when hospitals closed and it was a positive thing.
2:32:45
If you can get that inform I'm being very serious, I'd like to see that, like, in a tangible example.
2:32:53
So you are against the resolution, even though it passed both the senate and the assembly, you all are still advocating for the governor not to sign it then.
Chatodd Floyd
2:33:03
So I wanna clarify 2 things.
2:33:04
1, in my testimony, I do not state that a hospital closure is ever positive.
2:33:10
We openly acknowledge that that is a reduction in as a trade association.
2:33:14
We actively want to encourage more members to both be in the community and service them.
2:33:20
What we do say is that service units and reductions, it could be two beds, it could be four beds, it could be five beds.
2:33:27
That flexibility allows the system to be able to continue to service needs.
2:33:33
If you have a facility or a unit that is hemorrhaging money by miring it in bureaucracy where they are not able to say, let me save off 2 units or let me be able to innovate in order to respond to community's needs, if those things have red tape of 270 days, those things can exasperate the financial problems of the institution.
2:33:56
We would never advocate for any sort of affirmative closure.
Carlina Rivera
2:33:59
Okay.
2:34:00
Yeah.
2:34:00
You just say the far more common motivation behind changes within a hospital reflects could reflect positive developments.
Chatodd Floyd
2:34:07
Yeah.
2:34:07
And so that could be innovation.
2:34:08
You know dialysis dialysis as it once existed.
2:34:12
It doesn't need to be necessarily in a fixed unit.
2:34:15
You can allow for those machines as technology improves to be able to be mobile.
2:34:19
So that sort of fixed bed construct is not necessarily the same, and that's sort of one of those examples of innovation.
