Picking Up the Slack For Women

[Valin]

Townhall:

Kathryn Lopez

Nov 28, 2014

 

St. Vincent's Hospital went from lifesaver to bankrupt to closed to construction site for luxury condominiums in what seemed the twinkle of an eye in lower Manhattan.

Its end created a void. It was a place of births, last breaths, long and grueling nights, close calls and emergency care.

 

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But it is precisely because of that service that Ronald Rak found himself walking the emptied halls of St. Vincent's four years ago. Rak is the CEO and president of St. Peter's Healthcare System in New Jersey. What he saw saddened him: derelict operating rooms, empty offices, vacant hallways; a place of aid and healing beginning to uneasily vanish. As he was told the story of what had happened by a hospital administrator, he asked about what the void created by the hospital's absence meant for people in New York, who might be abandoned along with the building. She pointed him to "a little project we started in Midtown ... called Gianna."

 

The Gianna Center cares for women in a way that is foreign to much of health care today. The scandal of women's health care is that problems aren't solved, complications aren't investigated and dispensing quick fixes and pills are all too often the protocol. But Gianna is something different.

 

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They don't kill babies! And they have the nerve to call themselves a Women's Center....Something must be done to stop this...this outrage!