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Iris Negron has worked at Olympia Hearns flower shop for 20 years.

Hop on the 2, 4, or 5 subway line to 149th St.-Grand Concourse in Mott Haven, where you’ll find an array of shops clustered around Lincoln Hospital.

The shops are a great convenience to hospital employees and visitors, as well as residents and commuters. Shoppers can get their hands on a number of daily needs, even medical services, or grab a bite within this block-long strip of 149th St., between Park and Morris Aves.

PHARMACY: Nisar Pharmacy, 299 E. 149th St.; (718) 402-9104

Convenience is the aim of this pharmacy, which offers a little bit of everything. The walls are filled to the ceiling with a gigantic selection of products. Here, you can find over-the-counter medication, vitamins, hygienic products, homewares and décor, as well as toys, all at competitive prices, such as name-brand deodorant at two for $8. You can even have your passport photo taken for the low price of $8 for two photos. There is a huge selection, to “be convenient for our customers,” said Jasmine, an employee. “Everything you need, we’ve got it, and if we don’t, we’ll order it.” Folks there also take pride in customer service, with a multilingual staff that collectively speaks six languages, including Spanish and Hindi. Misar fills Medicaid and union prescriptions. Read more..

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?Large, Multispecialty Practice and “Big Bang” Emergency Department Activations Drive Enhanced Care Coordination and Workflow Efficiencies?

Eclipsys Corporation® (NASDAQ:ECLP), The Outcomes Company®, announced today that Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center (Bronx Lebanon), the largest voluntary, not-for-profit healthcare system in south and central Bronx, NY, has quickly expanded its use of integrated clinical components of Eclipsys Sunrise Enterprise™ suite of solutions. In addition to a seamless “big bang” activation of Sunrise Emergency Care™ within its emergency department (ED), Bronx Lebanon has recently completed a successful, six-month accelerated activation of Eclipsys’ Sunrise Ambulatory Care™ solution within a 40-doctor multispecialty practice. The ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) implementation is the first step in a plan to roll out ambulatory EHRs to all 27 of Bronx Lebanon’s outpatient practice clinics in 2010. Both activations build upon the healthcare system’s use of Eclipsys’ access management and industry-leading computerized physician order entry (CPOE) solutions within its acute care environments.

“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

A Scalable Template for Full Ambulatory EHR Rollout

“Because Eclipsys’ CPOE solution is integrated with Sunrise Ambulatory Care, we were able to utilize applications, such as orders, immunization manager and wellness manager, which are embedded in the structured notes of our ambulatory EHR,” said Eliot Heller, M.D., chief medical informatics officer, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. “Amazingly, we completed the launch with only two IT staff dedicated to the project because of the expertise and planning assistance we received from our Eclipsys team. I believe we deployed the outpatient EHR faster than any of the other healthcare systems in our area.”

Added Heller, “This launch also has given us a scalable template for deploying an EHR solution in our remaining 27 ambulatory care practices.” Read more..

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Montefiore is able to make an 11th-hour deal with Aetna allowing thousands who go to the hospital to keep their coverage.

A major Bronx hospital group last week averted a crisis that could have left tens of thousands of patients looking for new doctors.

Montefiore Medical Center, one of the city’s largest hospital networks, reached an eleventh-hour deal with insurance giant Aetna just days before the last extension of its contract expired, according to sources close to the talks.

While details of the yet-to-be-finalized three-year deal were not made public, negotiations were so tough that Montefiore sent out 1,800 letters to patients covered by Aetna plans warning that without an agreement by midnight, Jan. 7, the hospital group could no longer accept their insurance.

As well, some 400 Montefiore employees could have been affected by the cutoff.

Aetna is one of the state’s largest insurers, with about 47,000 customers in the Bronx alone, and  Montefiore runs four hospitals across the borough.

In addition to its flagship 620-bed Moses Division and 106-bed Children’s Hospital in Norwood, the Montefiore network includes the 396-bed Weiler Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Morris Park.

In 2008, Montefiore acquired the struggling Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center in Wakefield, giving it a new lease on life as the new 369-bed North Division.

Together, Montefiore’s hospitals annually log more than 85,000 inpatient stays - including over 7,000 births - and  more than 255,000 emergency department visits.

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Who: Senator Jeff Klein, five centenarian residents of the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale; Dan Reingold, CEO, and staff and faculty of the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, representatives of local 1199, representatives of the Continuing Care Leadership Coalition.

What: Five centenarian residents of the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale will speak about how they – and countless other aged residents in nursing homes across New York State – will be affected by Governor Paterson’s proposal to cut Medicaid by 10%.   They will be joined by Senator Jeff Klein, representatives of 1199/SEIU, staff of the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, and representatives of the Continuing Care Leadership Coalition (CCLC), an association of more than 100 not-for-profit and publicly-sponsored long term care organizations in New York, who stand with them in calling for the elimination of the devastating proposed cuts.

“While I understand our state is in dire need of a budget deficit reduction plan, I do not believe the health care industry should shoulder the burden of cutting the budget. The health care industry is constantly evolving and growing, employing millions of workers every year. We cannot scrap funding from one of the biggest employment producers in the state,” said Senator Klein.

Under the Governor’s proposed budget cutting plan, nursing homes in New York would lose close to $250 million in the four and a half months between November 15, 2009 and March 31, 2010.  The Hebrew Home for the Aged would lose an estimated $1,680,000 during the same period.  “Over the years Medicaid funding has been cut dramatically.  However the forthcoming budget proposes cuts to Medicaid that are so severe it will be impossible to maintain the quality of life necessary for our residents.  These cuts will hurt the most vulnerable of our citizens and its disastrous effect will force us and other nursing homes to further reduce services and staff,” said Daniel Reingold, president and CEO of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale.

Where: Hebrew Home for the Aged at 5901 Palisade Avenue, Riverdale 10471

When: 1:00 pm on Friday, November 6

Diane J. Barrett

Manager of Government Relations and Public Affairs

Continuing Care Leadership Coalition (CCLC)

Office: 212-259-0741

Fax: 212-258-5331

Email: dbarrett@cclcny.org

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Abby Ross
Communications Director
Deputy Majority Leader Jeff Klein
New York State Senate
3612 E. Tremont Ave.
Bronx, NY 10465
718-822-2049
479-283-3505 (cell)
abbynews@gmail.com

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The city is firing 200 medical workers and closing health programs that serve nearly 20,000 needy New Yorkers to stop its budget bleeding, officials announced yesterday.

“I’m losing a lot of sleep over it. I’m sure I’m not the only one,” said Health and Hospitals Corp. President Alan Aviles.

He blamed the steep cuts on a $316 million budget shortfall for the next fiscal year, which was caused by a slash in state Medicaid funds. More pain will follow if Albany doesn’t come up with cash, he warned.

“You cannot provide the services that we provide… without the funding to support it. It’s not done through magical thinking, it’s done through hard dollars,” said Aviles.

The doomsday plan calls for eliminating 400 jobs across the sprawling public health care system, half through attrition and half through layoffs. Pink slips will go to doctors, nurses, social workers and managers, he said. Read more..

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