Perspectives gnyha

Mercedes Redwood of NYC Health + Hospitals reviews how Health + Hospitals has transformed their patient meal offerings to feature plant-based meals throughout the health system, benefiting patients while simultaneously reducing their carbon footprint and saving the system hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

Svetlana Lipyanskaya, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health; and Daniel Collins, Senior Associate Director of Facilities explore the disaster planning that went into the creation of South Brooklyn Health’s new, architecturally flexible, hurricane-proof hospital, including being prepared for future climate-based threats and increasing surge and flex capabilities. 

Dr. Jason Golbin, Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer at Catholic Health explores strategies to use when implementing patient safety initiatives and how to foster collaboration between the leadership, staff, and patients.

Erin McDonough, Chief Communication Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and former Chief Communication Officer at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Mike Hughes, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff at Buffalo’s Kaleida Health take an expert look at hospital crisis communications.

Dr. Scott Shipman, Director, Clinical Innovations and Primary Care Initiatives at the Association of American Medical Colleges explores the relationship between primary care and specialty care providers, including access challenges and strategies to overcome them. 

Dr. Meghan McGinty, Situation Unit Leader & Director, Emergency Planning, Resilience, and Recovery at NYC Health + Hospitals; and Scott Heller, Vice President, System Emergency Management at Albany Medical Center discuss how the health care industry has adapted to changing emergency events and overlapping and long-term emergency activations.