Educating Restaurant Workers About Paid Sick Leave: A Pilot Study From New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 358-377
Author(s):  
Emma K. Tsui ◽  
Madeline Duffy ◽  
Sherry Baron
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Sick Leave ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
The Public ◽  
Paid Sick Leave ◽  
Sick Leave Policies

Across the United States, cities, states, and counties are rapidly adopting paid sick leave laws. Paid sick leave policies for restaurant workers may be particularly beneficial, since these workers are less likely to have these benefits and have the potential to spread infection through food-handling and engagement with the public. In order for paid sick leave laws to work, workers and employers must be educated about these laws broadly and effectively. Focusing on New York City, we conducted a pilot research using key stakeholder interviews to learn about New York City’s successes and challenges in educating workers and businesses about the law. Our findings indicate several lessons learned, including allocating sufficient funding, combined use of coalition building and organizing models, and attention to the needs of immigrant restaurant workers. Findings also suggest that greater attention should be paid to proactively addressing workplace organization and practices that thwart paid sick leave use.

scholarly journals A statewide analysis of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in New York

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Lasek-Nesselquist ◽  
Navjot Singh ◽  
Alexis Russell ◽  
Daryl Lamson ◽  
John Kelly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
New York State ◽  
The United States ◽  
York State ◽  
Multiple Introductions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Travel Restrictions ◽  
Westchester County

AbstractNew York State, in particular the New York City metropolitan area, was the early epicenter of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the United States. Similar to initial pandemic dynamics in many metropolitan areas, multiple introductions from various locations appear to have contributed to the swell of positive cases. However, representation and analysis of samples from New York regions outside the greater New York City area were lacking, as were SARS-CoV-2 genomes from the earliest cases associated with the Westchester County outbreak, which represents the first outbreak recorded in New York State. The Wadsworth Center, the public health laboratory of New York State, sought to characterize the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 across the entire state of New York from March to September with the addition of over 600 genomes from under-sampled and previously unsampled New York counties and to more fully understand the breadth of the initial outbreak in Westchester County. Additional sequencing confirmed the dominance of B.1 and descendant lineages (collectively referred to as B.1.X) in New York State. Community structure, phylogenetic, and phylogeographic analyses suggested that the Westchester outbreak was associated with continued transmission of the virus throughout the state, even after travel restrictions and the on-pause measures of March, contributing to a substantial proportion of the B.1 transmission clusters as of September 30th, 2020.

The New Deal, the Deserving Poor, and the First Public Housing Residents in New York City

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Allen ◽  
David Van Riper
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
York City ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
The United States ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
The Public ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Us Government

ABSTRACTBetween 1934 and the time of the 1940 Census, the US government built and leased 30,151 units of public housing, but we know little about the residents who benefited from this housing. We use a unique methodology that compares addresses of five public housing developments to complete-count data from the 1940 Census to identify residents of public housing in New York City at the time of the census. We compare these residents to the larger pool of residents living in New York City in 1940 who were eligible to apply for the housing to assess how closely housing authorities adhered to the intent of the National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) and the Housing Act of 1937. This comparison produces a picture of whom public housing administrators considered deserving of this public benefit at the dawn of the public housing program in the United States. Results indicate a shift toward serving households with lower incomes over time. All the developments had a consistent preference for households with a “nuclear family” structure, but policies favoring racial segregation and other discretion on the part of housing authorities for tenant selection created distinct populations across housing developments. Households headed by a naturalized citizen were favored over households headed by a native-born citizen in nearly all the public housing projects. This finding suggests a more nuanced understanding of who public housing administrators considered deserving of the first public housing than archival research accounts had previously indicated.

scholarly journals Workers not Paid for Sick Leave after Implementation of the New York City Paid Sick Leave Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerod Sharper Hall ◽  
Sarah Walters ◽  
Christopher Wimer ◽  
Amber Levanon Seligson ◽  
Matthew Maury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Sick Leave ◽  
York City ◽  
Paid Sick Leave

scholarly journals Awareness of Paid Sick Leave among New York City Restaurant Workers

2017 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma K. Tsui ◽  
Madeline Duffy ◽  
Sherry Baron
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Sick Leave ◽  
York City ◽  
Paid Sick Leave

scholarly journals Perceptions about the Federally Mandated Smoke-Free Housing Policy among Residents Living in Public Housing in New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 2062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Jiang ◽  
Lorna Thorpe ◽  
Sue Kaplan ◽  
Donna Shelley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Public ◽  
Smoke Free Policy ◽  
Healthy Housing ◽  
Residents Attitudes

Background: To assess residents’ attitudes towards the United States (U.S.) Department of Housing and Urban Development’s new smoke-free public housing policy, perceptions about barriers to policy implementation, and suggestions for optimizing implementation. Methods: In 2017, we conducted 10 focus groups among 91 residents (smokers and nonsmokers) living in New York City public housing. Results: Smokers and nonsmokers expressed skepticism about the public housing authority’s capacity to enforce the policy due to widespread violations of the current smoke-free policy in common areas and pervasive use of marijuana in buildings. Most believed that resident engagement in the roll-out and providing smoking cessation services was important for compliance. Resident expressed concerns about evictions and worried that other building priorities (i.e., repairs, drug use) would be ignored with the focus now on smoke-free housing. Conclusions: Resident-endorsed strategies to optimize implementation effectiveness include improving the access to cessation services, ongoing resident engagement, education and communication to address misconceptions and concerns about enforcement, and placing smoke-free homes in a larger public housing authority healthy housing agenda.

scholarly journals Antimicrobial stewardship perspectives from a New York City hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and opportunities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine J Kubin ◽  
Angela S Loo ◽  
Jennifer Cheng ◽  
Brian Nelson ◽  
Monica Mehta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Antimicrobial Stewardship ◽  
York City ◽  
Antibiotic Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
City Hospital ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Challenging Environment

Abstract Purpose To share challenges and opportunities for antimicrobial stewardship programs based on one center’s experience during the early weeks of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Summary In the spring of 2020, New York City quickly became a hotspot for the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, putting a strain on local healthcare systems. Antimicrobial stewardship programs faced diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties as well as healthcare resource challenges. With the lack of effective antivirals, antibiotic use in critically ill patients was difficult to avoid. Uncertainty drove antimicrobial use and thus antimicrobial stewardship principles were paramount. The dramatic influx of patients, drug and equipment shortages, and the need for prescribers to practice in alternative roles only compounded the situation. Establishing enhanced communication, education, and inventory control while leveraging the capabilities of the electronic medical record were some of the tools used to optimize existing resources. Conclusion New York City was a unique and challenging environment during the initial peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Antimicrobial stewardship programs can learn from each other by sharing lessons learned and practice opportunities to better prepare other programs facing COVID-19 case surges.

scholarly journals Psychiatric Care in a Novel Federal COVID-19 Treatment Center: Development of a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service at the Javits New York Medical Station

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Kaplan ◽  
Colin M Smith ◽  
Olli Toukolehto ◽  
Gerrit van Schalkwyk
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Treatment Center ◽  
Medical Providers ◽  
Liaison Psychiatry ◽  
Convention Center ◽  
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry

ABSTRACT At the outset of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, New York City faced the highest burden of COVID-19 cases in the United States. In response, the U.S. Federal Government deployed medical providers from various uniformed services to treat patients with COVID-19 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. There quickly arose a need for psychiatric services for patients with COVID-19 and psychological support for medical staff. Psychiatrists were tasked with establishing a consult-liaison psychiatry service in this unique environment. The authors detail the establishment of a novel consultation-liaison psychiatry service in a large convention center and explore lessons learned from this experience with the aim to empower uniformed psychiatrists to prepare for and deliver patient-focused care in pandemic settings.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

Applying the Devil's Works in a Holy Cause: Working-Class Popular Culture and the Salvation Army in the United States, 1879-1900

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-223
Author(s):  
Lillian Taiz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Salvation Army ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sunday Evening

Forty-eight hours after they landed in New York City in 1880, a small contingent of the Salvation Army held their first public meeting at the infamous Harry Hill's Variety Theater. The enterprising Hill, alerted to the group's arrival from Britain by newspaper reports, contacted their leader, Commissioner George Scott Railton, and offered to pay the group to “do a turn” for “an hour or two on … Sunday evening.” In nineteenth-century New York City, Harry Hill's was one of the best known concert saloons, and reformers considered him “among the disreputable classes” of that city. His saloon, they said, was “nothing more than one of the many gates to hell.”

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