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arrow Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn CHINE NOUVELLE/SIPA/Shutterstock Hospital groups and health equity advocates are celebrating now that the upcoming state budget does not include the broad cuts to health care spending initially proposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Those changes would have disproportionately impacted safety-net hospitals, which serve communities that were hardest hit by COVID-19. When Cuomo released his executive budget in January, he anticipated a $15 billion shortfall over the next two years. He sought to fill part of the gap by slashing about $600 mill...

arrow A healthcare professional cries in front of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, a safety-net hospital in Brooklyn, April 7, 2021. Vanessa Carvalho/Shutterstock When COVID-19 swept through the Rockaway peninsula last spring, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital was alone to weather the storm. Those who live nearby suffer disproportionately from conditions like diabetes, obesity, and hypertension that make people more vulnerable to severe cases of COVID-19, and St. John’s has been the sole medical center serving the isolated beach community since Peninsula Hospital closed in 2012. ...