Digestive Health Alliance : Congressional Call-In Day is June 17, 2014

If you want to sign up directly for Digestive Health Alliance's updates and for Call-In Day materials, please visit : http://www.dha.org/events/1015

From Digestive Health Alliance :

Attention all whose lives have been impacted by functional gastrointestinal and motility disorders, including patients, health care professionals, family members, and friends:

Functional gastrointestinal (GI) and motility disorders affect 1 in 4 people in the US. Be a DHA advocate and fill the information gap about these disorders in the nation's capital. You can help educate policymakers about functional GI and motility disorders and the needs of patients with these conditions. Encourage Congress to take action that will expand critical research and facilitate the development of new treatment options to improve health outcomes for this patient community.

On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 the digestive health community is asking you to take a few minutes of your time to reach out to your congressional representatives about this important issue. By joining together on one day, our voices are amplified with one clear message.

This national Call-In Day will set the stage before advocates arrive in Washington, DC on June 23-24 to meet with Members of Congress for DHA Advocacy Day 2014.

It's easy to take part in Call-In Day. Register to attend this event and you will receive an email on June 17th with instructions, including a phone number for your Member of Congress and talking points to help guide your calls.

Paul Ryan: 'We're not going to give up on destroying the health care system'

Paul Ryan: 'We're not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.'

Does anybody have an update to the Lenox Hill Hospital EMS Paramedic Layoffs ?

Lenox Hill Hospital ended its paramedic service to the #UES and turned in its licenses. @micahkellner @billdeblasio

— Sarah Steiner (@Sarahgoat) January 14, 2013

St. John's Episcopal Hospital At Capacity, Upper East Side Residents Complain About Hospital Crisis

After Peninsula Hospital closed, St. John's became the only full-service hospital in Far Rockaway. It is now operating at 100% capacity, meaning, it has no more room to take in patients. This condition is compounded by the fact that patients have nowhere to be discharged to, and by the fact that many of the employees have become homeless as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

Nearby nursing homes and adult homes have been evacuated and are not yet re-opened. Electricity continues to be a problem throughout the area and patients with special needs may have lost homes or cannot go back to homes without electricity or heat. Staff, many of them without homes or who have been evacuated, also need places to stay so they can continue to work. Homeless staff are given vouchers for hot meals.

St. John's has set up two funds for donations. To donate to St. John's Episcopal Hospital to continue its efforts to serve the community, please make a check out to St. John's Episcopal Hospital and mail it to St. John's Episcopal Hospital, 327 Beach 19th Street, Far Rockaway, NY 11691. To donate to the Hurricane Sandy Staff Relief Fund, please make the check out to St. John's Episcopal Hospital, and write in the memo "Hurricane Sandy Staff Relief Fund" and mail to the above-mentioned address. To pay by Paypal or Credit Card go to www.ehs.org.

Separately, WCBS 2 News did a piece about how the people in the Upper East Side are now beginning to complain about all the people from Lower Manhattan swarming their hospitals.

Maybe it is going to take complaints by UES residents to ring alarm bells about the uneven distribution of hospital beds in Lower Manhattan ?

Doctors For The 99 Percent Illuminate NYC Area Hospitals

A group called Doctors For The 99% used a large projection device to illuminate messages about healthcare injustice on 3 major NYC hospitals : Columbia University Medical Center on West 168th Street in Manhattan, at Montefiore Medical Center on East 210 Street in the Bronx, and at NYU Langone Medical Center on First Avenue in Manhattan.

Join our coalition of physician activists in support of Occupy. Like us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/doctorsforthe99 and visit us at www.doctorsforthe99.org.

Supreme Court Healthcare Transcripts

March 28, 2012: Transcript from the Supreme Court's hearing on Department of Health and Human Servs. v. Florida.
March 28: Supreme Court Hearing Transcript - Department of Health and Human Servs. v. Florida

March 27, 2012: Transcript from the Supreme Court's hearing on Department of Health and Human Servs. v. Florida.
March 27: Supreme Court Hearing Transcript - Department of Health and Human Servs. v. Florida

March 26, 2012: Transcript from the Supreme Court's hearing on Department of Health and Human Servs. v. Florida.
March 26: Supreme Court Hearing Transcript - Department of Health and Human Servs. v. Florida

Doctor Leaves America Over Its Broken Healthcare System

Because of the broken healthcare system in America, Dr. Carol Paris has decided to move her medical practice from Maryland to New Zealand. In this video, she tells us why.