DIABETES RATES: Roughly 11% of adults in the city, or 800,000 people, lived with diabetes in 2022, but rates were higher among people of color and in low-income neighborhoods, according to a new report released by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on Friday. Approximately 13% of Asian and Pacific Islander, 14% of Black and 14% of Latino residents had diabetes in 2022 – higher than 7% of white residents, data shows. Racial inequities were even greater in rates of lower-extremity amputations, with Black and Latino individuals having amputations at double the rate of white people, the report found. Disparities underscore the impacts of disinvestment in marginalized communities that have led to unjust diabetes rates in the city, the Health Department said.
WORKERS PICKET: Registered nurses and pharmacists who work at Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall in Newburgh held a picket Friday to demand that the hospital offer a fair contract, according to labor union 1199SEIU. Approximately 370 nurses and pharmacists have been working without a contract since the fall, and say that management has ignored their requests on issues such as staffing and patient safety, the union said. The workers are represented jointly by 1199SEIU and Teamsters Local 445.
