Perspectives

Mercedes Redwood of NYC Health + Hospitals reviews how Health + Hospitals has transformed their patient meal offerings to feature plant-based meals throughout the health system, benefiting patients while simultaneously reducing their carbon footprint and saving the system hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. 

View supplemental materials on the NYC H+H Plant-Based Meals program.

Svetlana Lipyanskaya, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health; and Daniel Collins, Senior Associate Director of Facilities explore the disaster planning that went into the creation of South Brooklyn Health’s new, architecturally flexible, hurricane-proof hospital, including being prepared for future climate-based threats and increasing surge and flex capabilities. 

Dr. Jason Golbin, Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer at Catholic Health explores strategies to use when implementing patient safety initiatives and how to foster collaboration between the leadership, staff, and patients.

Erin McDonough, Chief Communication Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and former Chief Communication Officer at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Mike Hughes, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff at Buffalo’s Kaleida Health take an expert look at hospital crisis communications.

Dr. Scott Shipman, Director, Clinical Innovations and Primary Care Initiatives at the Association of American Medical Colleges explores the relationship between primary care and specialty care providers, including access challenges and strategies to overcome them. 

Dr. Meghan McGinty, Situation Unit Leader & Director, Emergency Planning, Resilience, and Recovery at NYC Health + Hospitals; and Scott Heller, Vice President, System Emergency Management at Albany Medical Center discuss how the health care industry has adapted to changing emergency events and overlapping and long-term emergency activations.

Dr. Alyssa Silver, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and attending physician at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore; and Dr. Noé Romo, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatrics Inpatient discuss the role health care providers and institutions can play in firearm injury prevention.

Teresa Smith, MD, Associate Dean, GME and Affiliations & Associate Professor, Clinical Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, explores how GME programs have adapted to the challenges posed by COVID-19, how teaching hospitals can best support their residents, and what to expect as the new academic year begins. 

GNYHA’s David Rich and Jon Cooper take an expert look at what to expect from the incoming Biden administration on health care, including how a Democratic House and Senate will help President-elect Joe Biden, while presenting the challenge of a slim majority and need for bipartisan collaboration. 

Tom Mustac, Senior Director of Biomedical Cybersecurity at the Mount Sinai Health System, discusses responding to new and ongoing cyber threats during the COVID-19 pandemic and how health care can maintain its cybersecurity principles during an emergency.