I taught full time in the Baruch MBA in Health Care Administration program from 1972 to 1975, then was a health care administrator for over thirty years, finishing for seventeen years as President & CEO of LibertyHealth/ Jersey City Medical Center, where we built a replacement safety-net hospital (it took 15 years), played a key
March 13th “The White House appeared to declare victory this week for an Obama-era initiative to stamp out disease outbreaks around the world even as it moved to scale back the program…, But the United States is set to dramatically shrink its contributions to the initiative, a point that the report omitted. The Centers for
On May 3rd we posted: “we are not finished with Zika… It very well could come back.” Are we ready? “we are not finished with Zika… It very well could come back.” Are we ready? Today: The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in
In 2014, I suggested several anchor principles for Ebola preparedness in New Jersey, as hospitals of all sizes and scope “marketed” their Ebola readiness, only to learn that it took well over 20/ 25 full time staff to care for one Ebola patient (and 50 in Dallas!). These recommendations included that every hospital that certified