Sentences with phrase «new health crisis»

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All levels of government, hurting from the toll the public health crisis has had on budgets, are taking action, from municipalities (Kermit, WV; Chicago, Il, Everett, WA) to counties (Mingo in WV; Nassau in NY; Orange in California) to states (Mississippi, Ohio, New Mexico).

Premier Christy Clark is failing people who need mental health and addiction treatment and has failed to meet her election commitment for new addiction treatment spaces — a promise that was made long before this crisis hit,» said Hammell.

VANCOUVER — Five months after B.C.'s provincial health officer declared a public health emergency related to Fentanyl overdoses, the Christy Clark government is still not treating the crisis seriously enough, say New Democrats.

He also gets personal, diving into his personal health crisis, the time doctors told him he had 48 hours to live, and how the entire ordeal ultimately gave him a new perspective on business and life.

Van Warner suggests creating a crisis management plan for threats including food deserts, GMOs, the environment, health concerns, terrorism, cybersecurity, and the new labor movement and how to handle demonstrators.

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Since I started blogging, I've become better acquainted with two school nurses (one a new friend, one who serves with me on Houston's Student Health Advisory Council) and now realize that it's often school nurses who are on the front lines of the childhood obesity crisis, conducting diabetes screenings and BMI evaluations, and using those few precious minutes with students to try to educate them as much as they can about nutrition and hHealth Advisory Council) and now realize that it's often school nurses who are on the front lines of the childhood obesity crisis, conducting diabetes screenings and BMI evaluations, and using those few precious minutes with students to try to educate them as much as they can about nutrition and healthhealth.

The current crisis is worsening the economic situation and seriously endangers the ambitious — and often popular - social programmes launched by the president in the past ten years such as the exemption of health - care user fees from pregnant mothers and children below five, free schools, a reform of primary school, and a new health insurance scheme.

She said under the new emergency programme, the global health agency had activated an «Incident Management System» to oversee the global response and leverage expertise from across the organisation to address the crisis.

A new poll from Siena College shows that 90 % of New Yorkers say the current opioid crisis is worse than previous public health crisnew poll from Siena College shows that 90 % of New Yorkers say the current opioid crisis is worse than previous public health crisNew Yorkers say the current opioid crisis is worse than previous public health crises.

The CCOP lawsuit comes a day after the Independent Democratic Conference of the State Senate released a report comparing health concerns among NYCHA tenants to the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, with Sen. Jeff Klein saying «NYCHA is the new Flint.»

As reported by the New York Post's Yoav Gonen, Kavanagh joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett for a press briefing on the City's proactive response to the threat of the Zika virus, and the need for Congress to fund a robust, decisive effort by the federal government — in New York and especially in warmer places where mosquitoes known to transmit the virus are prevalent — to avert a health crisis in the United SHealth Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett for a press briefing on the City's proactive response to the threat of the Zika virus, and the need for Congress to fund a robust, decisive effort by the federal government — in New York and especially in warmer places where mosquitoes known to transmit the virus are prevalent — to avert a health crisis in the United Shealth crisis in the United States.

«We have made significant progress in combating the devastating heroin and opiod in New York, but this crisis continues to plague our communities and we must do everything in our power to combat each facet of this complex health emergency,» Governor Cuomo said.

President Donald Trump is on vacation at his New Jersey golf club, where he will participate in a briefing on the opioid crisis with Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price.

A study commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America — the trade organization representing the drug industry — warns that Cuomo's plan will drive up health care costs, harm New York consumers and could worsen the addiction crisis.

By Jesse McKinley ALBANY — For the second time in two weeks, New York State Department of Health officials sought to blame the Environmental Protection Agency for a contaminated water crisis in upstate New York, saying on Wednesday that they were confused and hamstrung by changing federal standards on perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic chemical known as PFOA.

Keeping guns out of the hands of those in the midst of a mental health crisis is critical to keeping New Yorkers safe, and the Extreme Risk Protection Order bill would empower families and law enforcement to do just that.

Saying New York is «ground zero» in the financial crisis that has emptied states» pockets across the country, Paterson outlined a plan that carves $ 686 million from education spending and $ 500 million from health care services to close the state's $ 3 billion budget gap.

«Heroin has become a public health crisis in communities across the nation, but today New York State is taking a stand to turn the tide on this epidemic,» Governor Cuomo said.

«New York proudly leads the fight against this public health crisis and this campaign will further our efforts to provide support, aid recovery, and take one more step toward a stronger, healthier Empire State.»

As New York has done to combat previous public health crises including crack / cocaine, HIV / AIDS, and nicotine and cigarette smoking, we need a comprehensive plan coupled with a commitment of resources that matches the magnitude of the problem.»

The report by the health think tank Centre for Health and the Public Interest claims that, the government's reforms to the NHS have seriously hampered its ability to respond to a new chealth think tank Centre for Health and the Public Interest claims that, the government's reforms to the NHS have seriously hampered its ability to respond to a new cHealth and the Public Interest claims that, the government's reforms to the NHS have seriously hampered its ability to respond to a new crisis.

This is the largest cut to health care services in New York history, and, in Sisto's eyes, the magnitude of the reduction is «extreme» — even within the context of the state's fiscal crisis.

«Today, we launch an aggressive assault on a public health crisis that is reaching epidemic proportions: the scourge of dangerous new drugs that are killing people and sending thousands upon thousands to emergency rooms in New York City and around the country,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statemenew drugs that are killing people and sending thousands upon thousands to emergency rooms in New York City and around the country,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statemeNew York City and around the country,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

The sale of synthetic drugs in head shops has contributed to a public health crisis in New York and across the nation, according to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

The governor is also relying on some one - time revenues from bank settlements after the financial crisis, to pay for improving the New York City subways, funding hospitals and other health care providers, and paying for some day - to - day state operating expenses.

Health officials in New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration faced sharp questioning Tuesday at the first legislative hearing examining the water contamination crisis in the upstate village of Hoosick Falls.

Yet Richard Gottfried, D - Manhattan, who chairs the Assembly Health Committee, says he is willing to listen to the man who helped rescue New York City from its fiscal crisis in the 1970s.

A new report by HMIC has warned that many people — including children and young people — experiencing mental health problems are being held in police cells, because of the shortage of appropriate crisis care services available across the country.

Also at 12:30 p.m., environmental advocate Erin Brockovich, the Alliance to Prevent Legionnaires» Disease, and the Allergy and Asthma Network will hold a press conference to call on lawmakers and health officials to work towards real, effective solutions to New York's escalating Legionella and Legionnaires» disease crises, LOB, Room 130, 198 State St., Albany.

During her first - ever speech before the Association for a Better New York — a nearly 30 - minute speech which drew a mere 90 attendees — Malliotakis mainly rehashed her usual criticisms of de Blasio: an insufficient plan to address the homelessness crisis, a need to better tackle mental health issues, troubled schools, the city's overspending and public urination.

ALBANY — While the Cuomo administration has been extensively criticized for its slow reaction to the unfolding Hoosick Falls water pollution crisis, a new trove of emails and meeting notes shows how top state Department of Health officials actively dismissed the Obama administration's increasingly dire warnings and recommended safe consumption levels.

At an Association for a Better New York power breakfast on Thursday morning, she blasted the mayor's quality of life record, insisting that his plan to tackle the city's homelessness crisis is insufficient, calling for a better plan to address mental health issues and complaining about public urination.

The committee discussed the county executive's proposal to spend $ 375,000 on a 24 hour crisis line, as well as two new positions in the County Health Department to combat the epidemic.

The health care cost crisis in New York will just get worse if our answer is to wait for action from our do - nothing Congress.

It would feed the 650 MW CPV Valley Energy Center that would contaminate the soil, air, and water of New York's world famous Black Dirt Region and cradle to grave would emit 20 Million Tons of CO2e annually, resulting in public health and climate change crises of a cataclysmic magnitude.

«With no ambiguity about opioid abuse being a public health crisis, New Yorkers hold many groups responsible for the current epidemic,» said Siena College Research Institute Director Don Levy.

President Donald Trump called heroin and opioid addiction a crisis and health emergency, but fell short of committing new money to combat the problem.

Local substance use clinics in central New York are reacting to President Donald Trump's declaration of the opioid crisis as a public health emergency.

The crisis in the nation's health sector took a new turn on Tuesday as doctors, under the auspices of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, declared that...

«As representatives of health care workers across New York state, we are proud to be part of this broad coalition of New Yorkers standing up for fairness as we try to get through this budget crisis together,» said George Gresham, president of 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.

Hospitals in New York also have gone into overdrive against the Republican measure, saying it «would threaten health coverage for millions of New Yorkers, create a fiscal crisis for the state, and burden hospitals and health systems with fewer resources and more uninsured or underinsured patients,» said Bea Grouse, president of the Rensselaer - based Hospital Association of New York State, which represents over 500 not - for - profit and public hospitals in the state.

The governor also is relying on some one - time revenues from bank settlements after the financial crisis to pay for improving the New York City subways, funding hospitals and other health care providers, and paying for some day - to - day state operating expenses.

«The governor said one of his goals is to provide more and better health care to New Yorkers, and addressed the healthcare crisis in Brooklyn, calling it a «serious situation.»

As POLITICO New York reported in June, the Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm over the water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls, even though federal regulators warned senior DOH officials that residents of the town should be alerted that they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of PFOA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released new health advisories for PFOA and PFOS, the manufacturing chemicals at the center of water contamination crises in several communities in the region including Hoosick Falls, Petersburgh, and North Bennington.

The New York State Department of Health and the village administration have been criticized for a slow response to the crisis.

(New York, NY) On March 11, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito (center) and other council member presented a proclamation to several District Council 37 leaders in appreciation of their members» heroic efforts during the recent Ebola health crisis.

«Today's new ad calls attention to a community where residents have nowhere to go in the event of an emergency or health crisis,» Cheliotes said in a statement.

«So we have a mental health crisis in our community, compounded that is the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation just released their numbers, that Erie County has slide back, we are 57th out of 62 counties in the state of New York for different categories of mental health and well - being,» Kearns explained.