49% of hospitals in New York report reducing and/or eliminating services to mitigate staffing challenges while ensuring their most critical services remain available for patients, according to a new report from Hanys.
Escalating care delivery costs and persistent workforce shortages are causing New Yorkers to lose access to healthcare services – and providers expect this access to further deteriorate. A new report from New York’s state and allied hospital associations calls on policymakers to recognize this grim reality and make immediate and sustained investments and policy changes to stabilize the healthcare system.
The report highlights hospitals’ troubling fiscal condition as uncontrollable costs continue to rise, revenue lags and workforce shortages persist. With pandemic-related government support ending and expenses continuing to escalate, hospitals’ dire fiscal crisis is likely to only get worse. Hospitals’ continued viability as healthcare providers and key job creators in their communities is in immediate jeopardy. Read more.
