In light of the closing in 2011 of four county-run mental health clinics, the Westchester Department of Community Mental Health is stepping up its monitoring of waiting lists at the community mental health centers that took over the workload. Mental Health Commissioner Grant Mitchell told a Legislative committee last week… Read More →
Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino will announce Tuesday that the county is joining the ProAct Prescription Drug Discount Program, a free program that gives discounts on drugs to residents who do not have insurance or whose insurance doesn’t cover particular drugs. ProAct will be mailing out cards to every… Read More →
Here is the announcement from Autism Speaks, a national research and advocacy organization: VETERAN COMMUNICATIONS AND GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE LIZ FELD NAMED PRESIDENT OF AUTISM SPEAKS Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, today announced that Liz Feld, a respected executive with a strong track record of accomplishment… Read More →
An almost half-million-dollar grant will fund brain research: Lowey Announces $452,500 Grant for Burke Medical Research Institute Funding Awarded to Continue Research on Treatment of Spinal Cord, Traumatic Brain Injuries Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-Westchester/Rockland) today announced Burke Medical Research Institute will receive a $452,500 federal grant from the National Institutes… Read More →
The Westchester County Board of Legislators set a public hearing for April 30 at 7:30 p.m. on a bill prohibiting anti-abortion protesters from blocking or intimidating patients or workers entering clinics that provide abortions. Representatives of Planned Parenthood and groups opposing abortion spoke at the Legislature’s meeting before the hearing… Read More →
Rep. Nan Hayworth, R-Mount Kisco, and 313 other House members, including 76 Democrats, voted this week to repeal tax-reporting requirements placed on small businesses to help fund the new health care law. “Yesterday morning I received a letter from a constituent, Seth Arluck of New Hampton, NY. Seth’s three-generation family… Read More →
All House Republicans, including Rep. Nan Hayworth, R-Mount Kisco, voted Wednesday to repeal the health care law. Here is Hayworth’s statement on the vote: (WASHINGTON) - Rep. Nan Hayworth, M.D. (R-NY) released the following statement today (Wednesday) after voting to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Hayworth strongly… Read More →
Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, sat down with The Journal News editorial board this afternoon and discussed some of the recent goings-on in Congress, not the least of which was the passage last month of the health-care bill. Lost in the backlash against the measure, Hall said, was the fact… Read More →
Freshman Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei of the Syracuse suburb of DeWitt announced today he will vote for a Senate-passed health reform bill later this week.. Maffei was among the 220 House Democrats who supported the bill that passed the House in November, but as a vulnerable freshman he has been… Read More →
The group Philipstown for Democracy plans a meeting to discuss health care under the Obama administration. Discussion topics will include: Will healthcare for all help jumpstart the economy? And House Resolution 676, which, if enacted, would provide necessary medical services to all Americans without co-payments or other fees at the… Read More →
