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Politics

BP Reynoso launches $50,000 fund to support community baby showers for new parents

By Jada Camille

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Bushwick

CenterLight Healthcare PACE reopens Bushwick center with Carnival celebration

By Gabriele Holtermann

NY: T.E.A.L. Ovarian Community Center

Windsor Terrace

BP Reynoso tours T.E.A.L. community center ahead of Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

By Gabriele Holtermann

NY: CABS Health Network Ribbon cutting

Bedford-Stuyvesant

CABS Health Network cuts ribbon on new headquarters in Bed-Stuy’s Pfizer Building

By Gabriele Holtermann

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Bay Ridge

Maimonides Health celebrates first anniversary of Bay Ridge Emergency Department

By Jada Camille

Mayor Eric Adams is looking to create an army of rat catchers through a new program dubbed the “Rat Pack."

AMNY

NYC rolls out ‘Rat Pack’ to help keep rodents away ‘on the street where you live’

Child with measles rash

AMNY

Measles outbreak at Brooklyn migrant shelter sickens two residents

Bay Ridge Cares says thank you with a luau-themed awards ceremony.

Bay Ridge

‘A chance to say thank you’: Bay Ridge Center hosts annual ‘Giving Celebration’ to thank community

By Jada Camille

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Healthcare workers rally for fair contract amid staffing crisis at Coney Island hospital

By Gabriele Holtermann

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AMNY

Brooklyn’s Dr. Sandra Scott on bringing trust back to healthcare within the LGBTQIA+ community

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‘A privilege to celebrate’: Maimonides honors 1,600 volunteers for 200,000 hours of service at annual luncheon

By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil

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Bay Ridge

Gastroenterology Associates of Brooklyn open new Bay Ridge Women’s Center and Wellness Center

By Kirstyn Brendlen

NY: One Brooklyn Health hosts panel discussing Black maternal health

‘It’s about bringing awareness’: Brookdale Hospital hosts panel on Black maternal health

By Gabriele Holtermann

Rosslyn Taylor (left) receives the Dr. Jean Leon Award from Dr. Leon.

Caribbean Life

RN Jean G. Leon remains ‘fully committed as a healthcare change agent’

Members of the Trinidad and Tobago Nurses Association of America, Inc. (TTNAA).

Caribbean Life

‘Together we aspire; together we achieve’: Trinidad & Tobago Nurses Association of America, Inc.

Jose Perez, a Bed-Stuy father whose fiancee died in childbirth, creates an online fundraiser in her honor.

Hospitals in Crisis

Grieving father fundraises to lift burden, advocate for Black maternal health after fiancé’s death

By Jada Camille

Past and current presidents, from left: Dr. Claudette Gordon (1996-1998); Wendy Lake (2004-2008); Hopina Samuel (2008- 2012); Pamela Griffin (2016-2020); and Dr. Virginia Bernard (2020- present).

Caribbean Life

Caribbean American Nurses Association/‌Bronx Manhattan Westchester Chapter appeals for new members

SUNY Downstate

Hospitals in Crisis

SUNY Downstate Hospital to stay open — for now — per state budget agreement

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Health

‘There’s a lot of hope’: Brooklynite steps up as organ donor for a friend in need

By Jada Camille

NY: Vascular Institute of New Yor

Sponsored

Vascular Institute of New York receives coveted recognition for excellence

By Brooklyn Paper

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