We want to hear from YOU!

• Have you been a patient over the past decade at Beth Israel Hospital?
• Are you thinking about or planning to seek services at Beth Israel Hospital in the future?
• Are you a family member of or a caregiver for a former or future patient at Beth Israel Hospital?

If so, join a special online forum on Wednesday evening, November 30th starting at 7 p.m. to tell us about…

• Your experiences in seeking services at Beth Israel Hospital.
• What you’d like to see Beth Israel Hospital do or become in the future.
• How Beth Israel Hospital can best can continue to serve patients and their families, and the community it serves.

RSVP here to receive further information about how to participate. Space will be limited so please don’t delay.

Why this event?

A few years ago, Mount Sinai Health System, the parent network of Beth Israel Hospital, sought to radically downsize it and scale back its services. However, in the wake of the pandemic, Mount Sinai changed its mind. Meanwhile, some key units at the hospital were closed and are not yet restored.

We want to hear from people who have used or plan to use Beth Israel Hospital about their experiences and ideas about how to make things better.  We will also help people understand what they can do to preserve and improve access to hospital care in Lower Manhattan, and briefly discuss Mount Sinai’s desire to close New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and disperse its services across Lower Manhattan.

What’s this is really all about:

As hospital empires grow ever larger, individual facilities in a hospital network often lose touch with the needs and concerns of their patients and local community service area, as everything gets centralized in and moved to a mothership base that is often located a long distance away.

In response, MergerWatch and our various partners in Health Care for All New York (HCFANY) launched the Community Voices for Health System Accountability (CVHSA) project a few years ago. This project has two foci:

• Strengthening New York’s oversight of hospital systems to foster improved community-hospital relations and advance health equity in medically-underserved areas.
• Supporting local organizing efforts to preserve health care services in their communities as these big empires take over individual hospitals.

Event sponsors:

• Community Coalition to Save Beth Israel Hospital
• Community Catalyst, Hospital Accountability Project
• Community Voices for Health System Accountability
• Metro New York Health Care for All

Questions? metrohealth@igc.org or 917-318-5008