A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot and 10 other people wounded over a roughly six-hour span of gun violence in New York City on Monday. The mayhem stretched across Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and to Staten Island, ending at about 10:30 p.m. in East Harlem, when the teen and a 30-year-old man were shot on Lexington Ave. and E. 123rd St. The teen, who was shot in the chest, died on the scene, .
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The Greater New York Hospital Association has launched an intensive care unit cross-training initiative for independent safety-net hospitals aimed at strengthening the city s health care delivery system, the organization told
Crain s Thursday.
The association will provide critical care training to non-ICU physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, it said, with the goal of supporting internal capacity for another surge of Covid-19 patients and other emergencies.
Lorraine Ryan, senior vice president of legal, regulatory, and professional affairs at the association, noted that staffing is essential. In the early days of the pandemic, the city was able to turn to outside resources to bolster staff. In anticipation of a second wave, we knew we couldn t re