PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Tanisha Grant on Healthcare Access and Hospital Closures
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Tanisha Grant shares personal experiences highlighting issues in the New York City healthcare system, including long ER wait times and difficulty accessing primary care. She argues against hospital closures, especially in high-need areas, and calls for enhanced healthcare services despite the city's large budget.
- Describes waiting 4 days in the ER for a bed during a life-threatening condition
- Highlights the struggle to get a timely appointment for her son's scalp condition
- Emphasizes the need to keep hospitals open and improve healthcare services in all neighborhoods
Tanisha Grant
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Hello, madam chair.
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Thank you so much for this very important committee meeting.
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I wanna talk from a personal experience Last year, I had a patriotic appendicitis, which basically meant that my that oh, I'm losing my words here.
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It basically meant that my appendix had a hole in it, and it was it was leaking into my large intestines.
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So even in my neighborhood, when I went to the hospital, I was in the hospital for 10 days.
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It was a life threatening thing that happened to me, and I had to wait in the ER for 4 days before I got a bed.
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Just last week, my son had a very serious condition with his scalp.
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I called his primary doctor to get him an appointment, and they told me that I had to take my son to the ER because they had no available appointment.
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When we're talking about Medicaid payments, these health officials do not get paid, but they should, but Medicaid, or any of these programs, or these assurances that we're on.
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And what does that mean for the health care that we get?
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We should not be closing any high buddles, especially in high need areas where good health care is at a lot already.
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It is outrageous to me that in a city of 8,000,000 people a city that our budget our city budget is a $115,000,000,000, and our state budget is over $220,000,000,000 yet through all the bureaucracy We can't make sure that everyone has a good hospital in their neighborhood.
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It is outrageous, and it's ridiculous.
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So we are demanding that city council urches the state to not pose this hospital in the lower east side and also not only keep our hospitals open, but enhance them.
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Thank you.
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It's not expired.
Tanisha Grant
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The health care services that we deserve.
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Thank you for listening to my testimony.
