Chair Lee on state healthcare investments and school-based health centers
Lee asks about the impact of $706M for hospitals, $480M for nursing homes, and $80M for FQHCs in the state budget. Martin highlights the school-based health center carve-out as a major benefit, and Anderson notes the city supports 34 of 139 sites with $9M annually.
Okay, so I think the state budget agreement reportedly includes, I believe, $706 million for hospitals.
$480 million for nursing homes, $20 million for assisted living programs, and $80 million for federally qualified health centers, FQHCs.
And how will recent state health care investments impact New York City's public health system?
Well, I'll tell you.
Another piece that is related to what you've mentioned that we're really excited about is the carve-out that school-based health centers got.
You know, for many of the students that are involved in getting care.
From school-based health centers, they don't have another primary care doctor or another place to go to get care.
And so being able to co-locate those services in the school is incredibly important.
Now, the challenge has been that these school-based health centers were facing the prospect of having to do a bunch of administrative work and billing and documentation and things that would have made it more challenging for them to
receive funding for the work had they not been carved out and had to enter managed care contracts.
So that carve out is a huge, huge benefit to the city in terms of buttressing our public health.