Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
A group of lawmakers, Rochester activists and mental health professionals are proposing Daniel s Law, a bill that, if passed, would amend public health law in New York state, establishing mental health response units that are trained to deescalate mental health and substance abuse emergency situations.
Those units would allow mental health professionals to respond to mental health and substance abuse emergencies, instead of armed police officers.
In addition, the legislation would create state and regional mental health response councils to develop responses to crisis situations.
Assemblymember Harry B. Bronson (D-138) and Senator Samra Brouk (D-55) are co-sponsors of the bill.
The letter stated, in part: “Programs, such as Special Patient Relations, perpetuate a two-tiered health system where those who are wealthy, and predominately white, enjoy unfettered access to health care while across the city and the region, countless others struggle to find access to the most basic levels of care. This type of preferential treatment also demonstrates a callous indifference to the larger social reckoning around issues of racial justice that define this cultural moment. These programs represent the worst of who we have been, not who we claim to want to be.”
Signatories also expressed their support for UR student demands, which include equity in vaccine clinic locations and distribution, data transparency, and the elimination of programs of special privilege.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) An internal email sent throughout the University of Rochester Medical Center is still coming under fire after hospital leaders admitted to vaccinating 26 of their board members and financial donors.
URMC leaders did apologize saying, in part, The notion of privileging some people over others for a potentially lifesaving vaccine runs counter to our values. But for many it heightens the concern about inequity in how the vaccine is being distributed.
United Christian Leadership Ministries Rev. Lewis Stewart says news of the preferential treatment doesn t sit well with him. So the question is: What makes these people so important that they would receive a vaccination, but yet people in my situation, and my social background can t receive it? That s the issue, Stewart said.
Soldiers & Sailors enters 2-year agreement with U of R Medical
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Finger Lakes Health will work with University of Rochester Medical Center to strengthen clinical care and hospital operations
Families in the Finger Lakes region can expect to see more high quality services at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hospital and Geneva General Hospital, leaders of Finger Lakes Health (FLH) said today in announcing an agreement with the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) to provide clinical operations support for both hospitals.
A management services agreement between the two institutions was just approved by the New York State Department of Health. It builds on a longstanding collaborative relationship through which many URMC physicians already provide care to FLH patients in Penn Yan and Geneva.