AGENCY TESTIMONY
H+H's commitment to fair wages and ongoing negotiations with physicians
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Dr. Katz emphasizes H+H's commitment to its physicians and to paying fair wages, acknowledging the ongoing negotiations and shared goals for a happy physician workforce and vibrant health system.
- Highlights the dedication of H+H physicians to serving vulnerable populations
- Mentions the long-running negotiations and the recent start of mediation
- Expresses hope for progress and resolution through the mediation process
Mitch Katz
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Health and Hospitals has an amazing group of physicians.
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Our physicians are well trained and deeply committed to taking care of vulnerable, populations.
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Many of them have told me about their own experiences as children growing up in immigrant families where they, took their own, parents and other relatives to, New York City Health and Hospital Facilities and made the decisions as children that they were going to work at health and hospitals as their way of giving back, to the city.
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We are absolutely committed to them, and we are committed to paying, fair wage.
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As, chair de la Rosa said, the negotiations have been going on for quite a long time.
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All of the, people involved on all sides, I think, have the same goal, which is a happy physician workforce, which, chairwoman Narcisse referred to.
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We we like to say happy doctors make happy patients, and a vibrant health and hospital system.
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I don't sense, in spending much, many hours, with our doctors, any difference in the goal.
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I think we all share, that is the goal, that we're aiming for.
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I am very hopeful we began a mediation this week under the aegis of the mayor, and I think progress has already been made, and that I hope, although the number of issues, as you've referred to, is complicated, and I'll I'll I'll mention a few of the reasons why it is as complicated as it is, but I I remain hopeful that with mediation, we will be able to resolve this.
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So in terms of of understanding the complications so that we're all, have a level, understanding, the majority of doctors who work at health and hospitals are not employed by the city.