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PUBLIC TESTIMONY

Testimony by Bruce Rosen, Member of the Public

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Bruce Rosen testifies about the lack of adequate healthcare facilities in New York City, particularly in Queens. He expresses concern over the shortage of hospitals and medical schools, and criticizes the focus on real estate development at the expense of healthcare infrastructure.

Highlights the absence of a capital program in city planning that would include hospitals
Points out that Queens, with a population of 2.3 million, only has two hospitals and no medical school
Shares personal experiences with crowded emergency rooms in Manhattan hospitals

Bruce Rosen

3:28:39

Okay.

3:28:40

I actually spoke last week at this city of yes, and it seems like a continuation because it was a lot of effort for very little housing with no support that would include hospitals.

3:28:52

Once city planning had a capital program, which would have included that.

3:28:56

It doesn't have that.

3:28:58

All 59 community boards were required to have at least one general hospital that no longer exists.

3:29:05

Case in point, Queens 12, Jamaica Hollis, Saint Robins, Rockstale, quarter of a million people.

3:29:13

That's where Miriam McElitt was.

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It was part of the failed Saint Vincent's Catholic over there.

3:29:21

Queens doesn't have a medical school.

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It is the largest jurisdiction

Christopher Leon Johnson

3:29:25

in

Bruce Rosen

3:29:25

the country without one.

3:29:27

There are 14 states in the District of Columbia that have.

3:29:32

The area of Southern Queens has three quarters of 1,000,000 people, and there are only 2 host I don't think that there's a top 20 city in the country that has just 2 hospitals.

3:29:43

But to those hospitals on there, Beth Israel opened the state of the ER just 13 years ago, I had been in that ER when it was brand new and what preceded it, which was a Robert Warren.

3:29:58

So, yes, all buildings can have new facilities.

3:30:01

I was also in New York Eye And Ear for my 1st cataract operation, old building, but a state of the art facility for there.

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And my subsequent one, which was an outpatient facility, a beautiful old mange, but not as as good as that.

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The other thing that's that's happening because real estate is pulling this, and real estate is pulling this because in Manhattan, you have medical tourism, is you're you're getting things like the replacement for housing and and and and whatnot over there.

Lynn Schulman

3:30:41

You you need to wrap it up.

Bruce Rosen

3:30:43

So Okay.

3:30:44

Well, what I would say is basically as as as you've heard, you're gonna have backlogs.

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I have seen because I've been in Mount Sinai's main ER four times in the past.

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Year and a half.

3:31:00

It gets very crowded.

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My brother was recently in while, Cornell.

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I couldn't even visit him there because they had so many people while he was there.

3:31:09

Sweet.

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So this is what you're faced with.

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And I think that you should be doing everything to push back.

Mbacke Thiam

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Thank

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