NYC ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL MUST BE SAVED
**** Keep St. Vincent's Emergency Room and Outpatient Services! Statement By NYS Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard N. Gottfried On The Planned Closing Of St. Vincent's Hospital **** St. Vincents Hospital "While I am dismayed that St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan has announced it will be closing its inpatient units, I am encouraged by Governor Paterson's statement expressing the importance of ensuring that 'the health care needs of this community are met by creating an urgent care center combined with other vital health care services the community needs.' "After many months -- years, really -- of efforts to stave off closure, the Hospital, the Governor, the State Department of Health, the Hospital's workers and their union Local 1199, the Hospital's creditors, potential partners, the local elected officials, and the community have made extraordinary efforts to find alternatives to save the inpatient services the community has relied o...