Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a new mayoral office to take over several existing public safety and mental health functions, billing it as the first step to fulfilling a campaign promise to create a brand new city agency. crainsnewyork.com/health-care/cn…

The head of the city’s public hospital system defended a contract with data giant Palantir at a City Council hearing this week amid concerns over the company’s ties to federal immigration enforcement. crainsnewyork.com/health-care/cn…

Gov. Kathy Hochul called on the Trump administration to restore staff to the World Trade Center Health Program, joining a chorus of Republican Congress members raising alarms that the service is faltering. crainsnewyork.com/health-care/cn…

As Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces pressure to improve the city’s mental health crisis response, an overhaul of the city’s beleaguered 911-based program unveiled in the final days of the Adams administration has not moved forward. crainsnewyork.com/health-care/cn…

Patients, staff at Mount Sinai will soon face the same facial recognition tech used at the airport under a deal with Clear that raises questions about patient privacy, data security and workplace surveillance at one of the state's largest health systems. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/m…

None of the state budget proposals from the governor, Senate, or Assembly address the expected loss of health insurance for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers over the next year, budget watchdogs say. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/s…

OpenAI's new medical triage tool, ChatGPT Health, missed signs of impending critical illness and frequently failed to direct users to emergency services when prompted with life-threatening cases, according to a study from researchers at Mount Sinai. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/c…

The mayor has quietly tapped former First Deputy Commissioner of Emergency Management Christina Farrell to lead the agency as acting commissioner, Crain's has learned. She steps into the job as the city continues to grapple with the historic cold front. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/m…

About 150 people took shelter at the city's two overdose prevention centers on Saturday night, and again on Sunday night, after City Hall extended a contract to keep their doors open during the coldest weekend of the deadly freeze. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/i…

The city is stepping up homeless outreach and shelter options ahead of what is expected to be the coldest weekend of a winter freeze that has already killed 17 people. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/c…

So far this season, the city Health Department has recorded 144,000 cases of flu, 52% of which were in children under 18. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/f…

Mamdani is opening a 106-bed shelter in Lower Manhattan, one of the most contentious safe haven sites planned by the Adams administration, one month ahead of schedule as part of efforts to expand options for New Yorkers reticent to come in from the cold. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/m…

On her first day of oversight hearings as speaker, Menin targeted what she called “systemic abuse” of emergency contracting, which de Blasio and Adams used to procure billions in goods and services without competitive bidding or comptroller oversight. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/c…

An eighth person has died after being found outside during the coldest winter storm the city has seen in years. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/w…

Nurses ratified contracts with three Northwell hospitals on Long Island as their counterparts in the city entered the fourth day of what union leaders are calling the largest nurse strike in city history. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/n…

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to increase the number of police-backed outreach teams patrolling the subway system to provide mental health services, an early division with Mayor Zohran Mamdani who campaigned on removing police from such interactions. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/h…

Mamdani reiterated support for removing police from many mental health 911 calls and said he appreciated having "a police dept that is responding to the needs that are in the immediate” after NYPD killed an allegedly blade-wielding patient at Methodist. crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/m…

A federal judge issued an order to restore federal Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood in some states, but local advocates are not holding their breath after previous attempts to temporarily halt the cuts faltered. My latest via @CrainsNewYork crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/p…

CVS Pharmacy agreed to pay $37.7 million to settle a lawsuit with the United States over a decade-long practice of over-dispensing insulin to customers and then seeking undue reimbursements from government health plans. My latest via @CrainsNewYork crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/c…

The Hochul administration says it has not received notice from the feds that New York's food stamps would be cut after Agriculture Sec. Brooke Rollins said her agency would begin withholding the funding to Democrat-led states. My latest in @CrainsNewYork crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/n…