NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
New York City
5 things to know about Dave Chokshi, NYC’s new health commissioner
He is taking over following Oxiris Barbot’s resignation.
New York City
Shea gives Barbot the benefit of doubt, but will de Blasio?
NYC Health Commissioner insults NYPD, but she was provoked.
New York City
Poll: Should NYC schools ban chocolate milk?
Upstate lawmakers and dairy farmers are fighting back.
New York City
New York City to pass water tank reforms
In a rebuke of city health officials, the New York City Council plans to pass seven new laws tightening oversight and regulation of thousands of rooftop drinking water tanks, citing evidence of contamination, widespread neglect, and lax oversight by agency officials.
New York City
NYC failed to enforce water tank law, council health chair finds
After neglect in New York City water tank inspection was exposed, seven reform bills weighed.
Health Care
Public health is more than just doctors and hospitals
Key New York City officials on the social determinants of health, community-based nonprofits and medical care in the Trump era.
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Facing a doctor shortage, NYC looks to Grenada
New York City is facing a doctor shortage. NYC’s struggling public hospitals look to a controversial med school in the Caribbean.
Kemp Hannon
Making New York City a primary care town
Visits to primary care providers are down. What would New York policymakers do to revitalize primary health care?
NYCHA
Council speaker calls emergency meeting on NYCHA’s water tanks
New York City elected officials and tenants’ advocates denounced the deteriorating condition of the rooftop water tanks that supply drinking water to New York City Housing Authority tenants, following a report by City & State which revealed dozens of cases of contamination – including birds, rodents, and insects in the tanks – that were never reported to city health officials, as the law requires.
New York City
DOI to investigate 'city’s failure' on water tanks
Councilman Torres to trigger official investigation of the city’s rooftop drinking water tanks, while he and Levine craft legislative response.
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