Health Facilities Eligible For $250M From State
Hospitals, nursing homes, and health clinics with proposals to expand primary care are eligible for $250 million in a new stream of state funding.
The grants, announced yesterday, are modeled after money allocated to hospitals named by the Berger Commission. That commission sought to overhaul New York's health care system by recommending in 2006 that nine hospitals close statewide.
Yesterday, officials said $100 million in grants would fund proposals to create and expand primary care services at health clinics and hospitals.
In a separate round of funding, hospitals and nursing homes not named in the Berger Commission can apply for $150 million in grants to fund "look-alike" projects aimed at reducing excess bed capacity, officials said.
"This new funding complements the grants made to facilities subject to Commission mandates," the state health commissioner, Dr. Richard Daines, said in a statement.
The grants will be administered by the state Department of Health and the Dormitory Authority of New York State under the Health Care Efficiency and Affordability Law for New Yorkers, known as HEAL-NY.
