Topic: Alan Aviles

Health headquarters has junk-only vending machine

NY Daily News - 111 days ago
A vending machine stocked with little but junk food sits in the lobby of the city building that houses top health officials.. . Staff and visitors...

New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) Announces STAT! 2011 for New York City's Public Hospitals

American Banking News - 126 days ago
New York, NY, October 07, 2011 -(PR.com)- New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) President Alan D. Aviles today announced the second...

N.Y. hospitals train staff on offering better treatment to gay, lesbian and transgender patients

NY Daily News - 261 days ago
City hospitals plan to show 38,000 staffers a video Wednesday of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender health horror stories to help them better...

Ax may fall on rape unit at city hosps

NY Daily News - 262 days ago
The city plans to slash its hospitals' special victims unit as part of steep budget cuts - sparking outrage among lawmakers and advocates.. . "What...

Molloy: An unrelenting panic for 100,800 minutes

NY Daily News - 282 days ago
Don't get a lump in your breast if you live in the middle of Queens.. . A shocking new report says some women had to wait 50 working days for a...

City hospital system on life support but ... HHC boss is highest-paid Bloomy aide

NY Daily News - 348 days ago
The head of city hospitals got a 20% raise last year just a few months before Mayor Bloomberg signed off on a nearly $1.3 billion bailout for the...

Is patient safety recession-proof?

American Medical Association News - 936 days ago
"Absolutely, there is increased pressure to make a business case for patient safety," said Gregg S. Meyer, MD, senior vice president for quality and safety at Massachusetts General Hospital/Massachusetts General Physicians Organization.. Yet, many times savings just do not materialize as ...

Video shows woman dying on Brooklyn hospital floor

AP News - 1319 days ago
Video shows woman dying on floor of Brooklyn psychiatric ward, ignored by hospital staffCity hospital officials agreed in court Tuesday to implement reforms at a psychiatric ward where surveillance footage showed a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and ...

New York Hospitals Curb Infections in Intensive Care

Wall Street Journal Health Blog - 1356 days ago
Nobody wants to wind up in the ICU. "It's not rocket science," Alan Aviles, the hospital system's CEO, told Health Blog. But most hospital-quality groups point to the CDC, which in turn collects data from a sample of facilities - 211 ...