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Holcomb, who replaced Mike Pence and is seen as more of a pragmatist, appointed a female obstetrician - gynecologist to be his new health commissioner.
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De Blasio's health commissioner said she thinks supervised sites for drug addicts to shoot up are an effective way to fight to opioid scourge.
Cuomo's health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, was testifying nearby in the Capitol complex at an unrelated hearing on Lyme disease.
The authorization by Dr. Howard Zucker, the state health commissioner, will expand access to vaccinations, especially to those most vulnerable.
«We are dooming future generations,» said Dr. Gale Burstein, health commissioner in Erie County.
The Senate has also approved Dr. Howard Zucker as state health commissioner.
The health commissioner said she's surprised the Senate has been slow to act on what she believes is unobtrusive, common sense legislation.
The Erie County health commissioner is calling on members of the New York State Senate to pass legislation she said would save lives.
Fittingly, New York's award winning health commissioner and open data maven Nirav Shah MD -LSB-...]
Cuomo plans to have four regional algal bloom summits across the state led by the Water Quality Response Team, DEC and state health commissioner.
On Thursday, Governor Andrew Cuomo sent his health commissioner to meet with the Bronx borough president to address growing concerns from residents.
«We recognize that you have requested specific funding for HASA, but please note that your request is subject to those negotiations, which are pending,» state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker wrote in a letter to King on Tuesday.
The coalition suing the governor and state mental health commissioner is planning a fundraiser in August to help with mounting legal fees.
The testimony on Wednesday was less emotional, but more contentious, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle sharply questioned Dr. Howard Zucker, the health commissioner, for several hours.
Cuomo has made it clear that if the health care industry can't cut itself, then he wants the Legislature to empower the health commissioner to do it instead.
There is a desperate need for more services for people struggling with opioid addiction, said Dr. Gale R. Burstein, the county's health commissioner, who lives in Amherst.
At the first of three legislative hearings on Hoosick Falls and water quality issues on Tuesday, state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker pointed to the EPA dozens of times as the reason residents were allowed to drink poisoned water without public warning.
The health commissioner says earlier is better because there are several new strains of flu in the shot for which is there is no past immunity and the body needs time to adjust.
Cox spoke at a natural gas industry lobby meeting, where he said Cuomo was «dithering» on a decision about allowing fracking in New York, by continuing to say he's waiting for his health commissioner to finish a review.
Mayor de Blasio's health commissioner said she thinks supervised sites for drug addicts to shoot up are an effective way to fight to opioid scourge.
Mr. Romaine, a member of the health committee, has asked county health commissioner James Tomarken to provide any available statistics on the number of children on Long Island who need long - term medical care.
«People are getting hospitalized for things they could be getting care for in the outpatient setting,» former health commissioner Nirav Shah said in 2013.
The state proposal would allow the health commissioner to determine what contaminants should be tested for, excluding or including different ones on a county, regional or local basis.
That review is currently held up while Governor Cuomo's health commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, conducts a health study first.
The proposal would also require water systems to notify the state and property owners if test results show levels for contaminants above «notification levels» established by the health commissioner.
In addition to Martens and Driscoll, the board that will vote today is stacked with Cuomo appointees, including the state» acting health commissioner and the secretary of state.
«It's going to come down to the health commissioner and the environmental commissioner,» he told me, for the most recent time, in October.
New York state's acting health commissioner is touring the state this week, advising New Yorkers to get off the couch and get some exercise.
Cuomo has not yet decided whether the state should allow hydrofracking; he's awaiting a health review on the drilling method from his top health commissioner.
The county then enlisted the state's associate health commissioner to write Brown in January asking for a meeting.
And while Governor Cuomo has said repeatedly he's waiting for the completed review from his health commissioner, he has also said that he would make a decision on whether the state should go ahead with hydro fracking before Election Day in November of next year.
On February 5, Dr. Mary Bassett, the city health commissioner told a City Council budget hearing that «the public health literature is clear.»
New York's health commissioner is still declining to speculate when his agency will finish a review of the health effects of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, meaning the state appears no closer to allowing the controversial drilling process.
The county health commissioner is warning residents that all pets need to be vaccinated to protect them from this fatal disease.
Cuomo says he's waiting for his state health commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, to report on his own health review.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's health commissioner received a grilling from state senators at a hearing this week on whether New York is doing enough to combat tick - borne illnesses.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens, second from let, talks on hydraulic fracturing during a cabinet meeting at the Capitol on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration will move to prohibit fracking in the state, citing unresolved health issues and dubious economic benefits of the widely used gas - drilling technique.Acting health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker is seated left.
«I want to give credit to the important alliance between the advocates and the people who work in government,» Dr. Mary T. Bassett, the city's health commissioner, said during the March 15 official reopening of the clinic, which is located at 303 Ninth Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets.
Cuomo had repeatedly said he would defer to Martens and acting health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker in making the decision.
The bill also puts the state health commissioner in control of the program and gives the governor authority to end the program at any time on the recommendation of the health commissioner or state police superintendent.
Cuomo says he is waiting for a public health report he ordered his health commissioner to undertake months ago before deciding whether to lift the moratorium on fracking.
«That governor, that mental health commissioner, has not provided any family, youth or mental health professional that is not paid by the Office of Mental Health to step forward in five years to say this is good for those kids,» Chudy said.
The city and state health commissioners put out a joint statement later Monday saying that three additional sites tested positive over the weekend for the bacteria, bringing the total to 18.
Martens made his announcement after a detailed presentation by state health commissioner Howard Zucker, who concluded that he would not allow his family to drink tap water in an area where fracking occurred.
A Cuomo spokeswoman said later that Dr. Howard Zucker, the state health commissioner, had called his city equivalent, Dr. Mary Bassett, to brief her on the discovery and left a message, since Bassett was already at de Blasio's news conference.
He and the state's mental health commissioner, Dr. Anne Marie Sullivan, are pushing a plan to close the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center and merge it with the Buffalo Psychiatric Center.
The state Department of Health has been conducting a health study of fracking for more than two years under two health commissioners.
Cuomo, who along with his Mental Health commissioner pushed for closing the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center and merging it with the Buffalo Psychiatric Center, has since decided to leave the West Seneca facility open, a state official confirmed.
Another bill passed unanimously in both houses would narrow the definition of a safety - net hospital and instruct the state health commissioner to raise reimbursement rates for hospitals that meet the new criteria.
Under Cuomo's proposal, that would empower his health commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, to unilaterally make cuts himself.