Brigitte Stelzer
Mayor Adams mentioned Saturday he plans to foyer the Biden administration onerous to drop its plan to close two Veterans Administration hospitals in New York City.
“They need to be open, and I’m joining my federal and state lawmakers because they gotta be open,” mentioned Adams following an unrelated occasion in Lower Manhattan.
“There is no reason that we are closing those hospitals. We fought before, and I’m going to Washington DC, and we are going to fight again. We need those hospitals open,” added Adams, a supporter of the president who typically refers to himself because the “Biden of Brooklyn.”
Three weeks in the past, The Post completely reported that the VA was planning to close hospitals in Brooklyn and Manhattan and contract with personal medical suppliers as a part of a “strategic collaboration” to deal with vets.
The Brooklyn VA hospital is in Bay Ridge, and the Manhattan facility is at 423 E. twenty third St.
A 3rd VA medical middle is situated in The Bronx; it isn’t affected by the proposed overhaul.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island), whose district contains Bay Ridge, beforehand advised The Post she and veterans she represents “are mad as hell, and we will not allow the Biden administration to close these facilities”
The VA proposal says it might be “discontinuing” providers on the “Brooklyn campus” and as an alternative set up a strategic collaboration with one other supplier to ship inpatient medical and surgical and emergency division providers. The plan would additionally close the Manhattan VA hospital and develop a brand new “urgent care center” with one other supplier.
