CORRECTION: Gov. Kathy Hochul has sought to change standards for involuntary mental health treatment via the state budget in previous years but not every year that she has been governor. This information was updated in the article, “Legislature rejects Hochul’s involuntary commitment push in budget proposals,” in Thursday’s Health Pulse.
HEALTH HOUSING: A new affordable and supportive housing development tied to New York City Health + Hospitals has opened in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The site, located on Throop Ave. next to Woodhull Hospital, is a 93-unit apartment building that will be open to public hospital patients who are homeless along with low-income seniors and others who qualify for below-market-rate housing. The building, which cost $41.5 million to stand up, is part of a housing initiative among Health + Hospitals, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and Comunilife, a nonprofit providing on-site services to residents. The hospital will provide medical care to people living in the building’s 56 supportive housing units.
CLINIC RELOCATION: Maimonides Medical Center filed plans this week to relocate its women’s health suite at 4422 Ninth Avenue in Sunset Park. The Brooklyn hospital requested approval from the state Department of Health to move the women’s health clinic next door to an adult and pediatric care facility at 6323 Seventh Avenue, according to a certificate-of-need application. The total cost of the project is $1.1 million.
