Brooklyn health care Town Hall emphasizes transition to outpatient care, collaboration, and funding
But ignores LICH
At Tuesday’s town hall meeting “Transforming Health Care in Brooklyn,” held at Brooklyn Law School, the five-member panel of hospital and policy administrators was asked, “What would health care in Brooklyn look like if you could start from scratch?”
The consensus: There’s no simple answer — but a transformed system would include a greater emphasis on primary care, outpatient centers integrated with hospitals, and more collaboration between hospitals.
Panelists sounded the alarm, however, about finding sufficient interim funding to transform from the old model to an outpatient centered system, and said things were going to get worse for Brooklyn under the Affordable Care Act.