HEALTH COVERAGE: Mayor Eric Adams signed legislation Monday to make sure city employees don’t experience lapses in health care coverage when they transfer from one agency to another. The law requires city agencies to expedite the city-administered health insurance enrollment process when employees transfer and mandates that agencies offer detailed information to their workers about enrollment deadlines. The law was sponsored by Brooklyn Councilwoman Rita Joseph.
MRI EXPANSION: Good Samaritan University Hospital, part of the Long Island-based system Catholic Health, filed $1.7 million plans on Monday to build a mobile MRI trailer on its campus to accommodate rising patient volume, according to an application to the state Department of Health. The Suffolk County hospital said it needs to install a mobile imaging unit to accommodate a 20% rise in patient visits since 2022, which created wait times between three to six weeks for an outpatient MRI scan. The hospital is seeking to add a mobile MRI unit for a year and a half until it identifies a permanent location for a new scanner, the application said.
