Black and low-income New Yorkers largely shut out of major academic hospitals

(Physicians for a National Health Program) Researchers at CUNY Hunter College, Boston Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School have found that few Black New Yorkers receive care in New York City's elite private academic medical centers (AMCs), and that uninsured and Medicaid patients are also markedly underrepresented at those centers. Using individual-level inpatient discharge data for acute care hospitals in New York and Boston, the researchers found access to AMCs remains limited for disadvantaged populations, particularly in New York.

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