PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Anne Bove, Retired Nurse from Bellevue Hospital and Representative of the Commission on the Public Health System (CPHS)
3:20:54
ยท
152 sec
Anne Bove, a retired nurse from Bellevue Hospital, testified on behalf of the Commission on the Public Health System (CPHS) in support of the Doctors Council's concerns regarding contract settlement. She emphasized the importance of thorough statistical analysis in healthcare decision-making, particularly regarding the reduction of appointment times to 20 minutes.
- Shared personal experience of participating in a nurses' strike in 1980
- Questioned the validity and comprehensiveness of statistical analyses used to justify healthcare changes
- Expressed concern about the potential negative impacts of reducing appointment times to 20 minutes on patient care
Anne Bove
3:20:54
Hello.
3:20:54
My name is Anne Bove.
3:20:57
On a personal note, I'm a retired nurse from Bellevue Hospital after 40 years of service.
3:21:03
I'm here to represent CPHS which is the Commission on the Public Health System which has spent over 35 years advocating for access to care issue founded by Judy Wessler and Marshall Anglin.
3:21:15
And we're here in in support of doctor's counsel's concern in regards to the fact that they need to have that contract settled as quickly as possible.
3:21:25
In 1980, I went out on strike.
3:21:28
I Taylor was invoked and, you know, it was a very difficult I was a young nurse.
3:21:34
I followed my seniors.
3:21:36
So I know how difficult it's a decision to make and you don't wanna do that.
3:21:40
It was a different time, different collaboratives there.
3:21:43
So anyway but my concern is statistical analysis.
3:21:49
All right?
3:21:50
What the commission's concern is statistical analysis.
3:21:54
You know, people say, oh, you know, the benefits of, you know, cutting the time down didn't we didn't see any real deficits, but what was the sample size?
3:22:06
You know, what was the patient population?
3:22:09
What was the, the parameters that you looked at accordingly?
3:22:13
I remember years ago there was, something with Harlem Hospital and saying that the Harlem community had a decrease in asthma.
3:22:20
The reality was they looked at only hospitalizations.
3:22:23
When they did a door to door, they actually saw a massive increase so that you could only guess that it was the Triborough Bridge as well as the bus terminals that was part of the reason you saw that incident.
3:22:35
But they were doing better at secondary care.
3:22:38
So the concern is making sure that you have adequate statistics.
3:22:43
I can't imagine that 20 minutes is going to help not even, you know, the HHC population, but populations in general.
3:22:52
Because if a patient tells you something is wrong, you have to go into it.
3:22:56
You can't just say, okay, you know, we'll just look at that issue.
3:23:01
So I think in terms of looking at statistical analysis and making sure that those statistics are real and pertinent and we can see how we can do better because I've lived through it.
3:23:14
And I've had to, in this room, actually, had to show how how those numbers were wrong and do the the footwork myself.
3:23:22
So thank you for your time.
Mercedes Narcisse
3:23:24
Thank you so much.
Anne Bove
3:23:25
Commission on the public health system.