Map of the Day: Sick Hospitals

From HealthCareThatWorks comes this informative new mashup, showing all of the hospitals in the city, including the ones slated for closure or reduction in services. If you look at the map, one thing is obvious:

Today, New Yorkers who live in low-income communities are less likely than ever to live near a hospital. This trend may worsen: Of the 12 hospitals currently slated for closure, downsizing, or restructuring, 8 are located in or near high-poverty communities.

The backend for the site was put together by OnNYTurf-- he's becoming the go-to guy for NYC mashups.

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on January 16, 2007 4:36 PM

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Opportunity Agenda

To address "nutbag's" comment about the hospitals - there is no propaganda going on here. All our data comes from the New York State Department of Public Health and their SPARCS data set.

While I don't know the exact date of the closures of Peck and Boulevard, they most likely closed right around 1985 or soon there after. that is why they are "active" in the 1985 data, but closed every decade thereafter.

20 years ago IS a long time, but it is within the scope of our map, which attempts to show two decades worth of trends.

Jonas Cord

It's not a mashup, it's a map.

Nutbag

There's a bit of propaganda at play here, at least two of the hospitals listed as closed have been closed for an extremely long time (boulvard in queens, Peck in brooklyn), and a few other hospitals seem to be missing entirely.