

Mendy Reiner, co-chairman, Save MaimonidesĪstoria: I am writing to celebrate the passing of the bipartisan legislation Bridging the Gap for New Americans through Congress.

We’re demanding that DOH immediately act to install experienced, competent leadership to save Maimonides from financial collapse.

Save Maimonides, a grassroots coalition representing southern Brooklyn’s diverse communities, wants a safe and reliable hospital. All the while, nurses were protesting severe staffing shortages, describing the conditions as “extremely difficult, even dangerous.” The nurses-to-patients ratio has left patients dangerously unattended, sometimes in sweltering rooms. While losing more than $145 million last year, Maimonides’ CEO’s compensation jumped to more than $3 million. Manasseh’s defense of safety-net hospitals ignores this one’s mounting financial woes and legitimate criticism of neglect, lackluster care and poor conditions from unhappy patients. 6) is deeply troubling considering that the hospital is ranked last in the New York metropolitan area by U.S. Donna-Marie Manasseh’s claim that Maimonides Medical Center offers “the very best of American medicine” ( “Strengthen, don’t shred, safety-net hospitals,” op-ed, Oct.
