Crain’s Health Care Symposium asks: ‘Can Brooklyn be cured?’
Stephen Berger Keynote Speaker
Two major Brooklyn hospitals – Long Island College Hospital and Interfaith Medical Center — are fighting to stay open and several others are teetering. Is there a cure for what ails Brooklyn health care?
Stephen Berger, Chairman of Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC was the keynote speaker at Thursday’s “Crain’s Health Care Symposium: Curing Brooklyn’s Health Care Crisis” event at the Brooklyn Marriott, sponsored by Crain’s New York Business.
Berger served as the chair of the Brooklyn advisory panel of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2011 Medicaid Redesign Team, which was intended to improve the stability of Brooklyn’s health care system. The Brooklyn Work Group’s report called for more outpatient primary care clinics and fewer inpatient hospital beds, among other restructuring.
Hundreds attended the symposium, which brought together panels that included CEOs from four Brooklyn hospitals along with representatives from government and labor.