WITH EACH DAY, OUR LIVES ARE MORE AT RISK

DEMAND A HOSPITAL!
St. Vincent’s was the primary medical center for the West Side of Manhattan
from 58th Street south to Battery Park, an area with approximately
440,000 residents, 815,000 private sector workers and millions of tourists.

For six months our community has been without adequate health care in lower Manhattan.

WITH EACH DAY, OUR LIVES ARE MORE AT RISK

WITH EACH DAY, OUR LIVES ARE MORE AT RISK

Every day our situation gets worse. Today, our families, friends, neighbors, doctors, nurses
and neighborhood merchants are here to demand the restoration of a full-service Hospital
and Level I Trauma Center Emergency Room at the site of St. Vincent’s Hospital.

Recent articles in City Limits and The New York Daily News stress Our public officials must
the dangerous, overcrowded conditions of Manhattan ERs since the
closure of St. Vincent’s.
realize, in a health crisis
every minute matters!
Here is what some of those on the front lines are saying:
We do not need another Needs
Dr. Lewis Goldfrank, Bellevue’s longtime chief of emergency Assessment. We do not want an
medicine, called the closure of St. Vincent’s “a significant disaster” Urgent Care Center.
for emergency care. “We are seeing people in rapid succession
continuously in every space we’ve got. The crowded conditions have What we need and
led to an unsettling increase in patients assaulting medical staff demand is a hospital now.
and threatening other patients. We are in the middle of a crisis.”
If we can afford to build a new
Dr. Christopher McStay, Assistant Director of Emergency Medicine state of the art Urgent Care Center
at Bellevue, has an expression for the influx of patients that has we can find the money to develop
swamped the hospital—he calls it “off the board.” Literally, there a new hospital for our community
are so many new cases in the ERs that have taken St. Vincent’s at the St. Vincent’s location.
patients, that they have run out of board space on which to write
Lack of hospital services affects
their patients’ conditions.
all of us. With each passing day,
Rhona Chambers, a paramedic at New York Downtown Hospital our lives are more at risk. Yet our
and Long Island College Hospital, echoes the doctors’ sentiments: rallies, petitions and calls have
“Your life really depends on traffic patterns. When you bring gone unanswered.
a patient in, there are already people on stretchers, in ambulances,
waiting to get triaged before you.” Rather than diminishing
Another doctor, surveying the new landscape of life and death our resolve, we’re growing
in New York hospitals after the closure of St. Vincent’s, says, in number, with more
“It’s like a car crash in slow motion.” commitment than ever.

COALITION FOR A NEW VILLAGE HOSPITAL FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO

www.DemandAHospital.blogspot.com

WITH EACH DAY, OUR LIVES ARE MORE AT RISK

WHAT YOU CAN DO!
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Working Families Party
227 Waverly Place Tenants Association
504 Democratic Club
ACE (Assoc. of Community Employment
Programs for the Homeless, Inc.)
ACT UP New York

Come to these events Bleecker Street Block Association

Broadway Speaks Out
Charles Street Block Association
☛ The Coalition for a New Village Hospital is planning to make Charlton Street Block Association
Chelsea-Elliott Houses
a “house call” to Dr. Daines. If youare interested in joining us, please The Children’s Aid Society – Philip Coltoff Ctr
send an email to DemandAHospital@gmail.com Christopher East Block Association
Coalition For A Livable West Side

☛ October 21, 2010 at 6pm Natasha Dillon,

Founding Member of Queer Rising
Community Board 2 Full Board Meeting Disabled in Action (DIA)
Downtown Independent Democrats
Let your community board and representatives know that it has been GO Magazine
2 months since CB2 passed a resolution to lock the land for only a Jim Owles Democratic Club
LGBT Cancer Network
hospital and set up a committee in bankruptcy court. Nothing has come LGBT Chamber Of Commerce
of this resolution, and the St. Vincent’s Ominbus Committee has not LGBTQA Alliance of City College
Lesbian and Gay Males Elders Circle
met for 2 months. Cathy Marino-Thomas,
Where: P.S. 130 Auditorium, 143 Baxter Street (between Grand and President of Marriage Equality NY
McManus Democratic Club
Hester Streets) Metro Health Care
Morton Street Block Association
☛ October 27, 2010 at 1:00pm Mulry Angle/W. 11th Street Block Assoc.
National Federation of Nurses
Needs Assessment Steering Committee Meeting
New York State Nurses Association
Protest outside Congressman Nadler’s Office to Demand that the Public Perry Street Block Association
Proud Allies
be included in the Needs Assessment currently underway.
Roger Eden Foundation
Where: 201 Varick Street, Suite 669 Conference Room Seniors Take Action (STA)
Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC
Tribeca for Change
Call or write our public officials West 10th Street Block Association
West 11th Street Action Block Association
WestView News
☛ and let them know we MUST have a hospital Wigs For All (Cancer Awareness)
The Women’s Coffeehouse
on the lower west side of Manhattan!
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