Q&A
Discussion on inadequacy of urgent care centers as hospital replacements
3:12:33
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Council Member Lynn Schulman and Jean Ryan discuss the inadequacy of urgent care centers like CityMD as replacements for hospitals. They emphasize the importance of maintaining proper hospital care and address issues with urgent care centers' pay structures for both patients and employees.
- Council members agree that urgent care centers are not suitable substitutes for hospitals
- Concerns raised about accessibility and affordability of urgent care centers
- Emphasis on the need for maintaining existing hospitals and proper care facilities
Lynn Schulman
3:12:33
Thank you very much.
3:12:34
And to your point, CityMD is not the answer for this.
3:12:40
The answer is for us to have the hospitals that we need and the care that we need where we are.
3:12:47
And by the way, you know, CDMD in addition, you know, they have a pay structure that doesn't help people who have little means.
3:12:56
So
Jean Ryan
3:12:57
Yeah.
3:12:58
And apparently, they don't they don't have a pay structure that helps the employees either.
3:13:04
So
Mercedes Narcisse
3:13:04
Yeah.
3:13:05
Yeah.
Jean Ryan
3:13:05
Yeah.
3:13:06
I I don't see urgent care places as Right.
3:13:10
Substitutes for hospitals.
3:13:12
They're not.
3:13:13
But if we're being told to go there Right.
3:13:15
I just wanna say, no.
3:13:17
It's it's not the same.
