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Clinic Closes on Staten Island
One of Staten Island’s only hospitals is getting ready to close a satellite clinic for under-served patients.
by Fred Mogul
NEW YORK, NY April 28, 2008 —Richmond University Medical Center says it can no longer afford the rent for a primary care center in the Clifton Neighborhood of Staten Island.
A spokesman says patients will now have to go to the main campus, 3.5 miles away.
The Clifton center was accessible by Staten Island’s only train line, but many patients will now need to take a bus.
Staten Island is the only borough that has no large-scale facility run by the city’s public health system, the Health and Hospitals Corporation and local elected officials and advocates have complained for years that much of the island can not easily access its 2 major private hospitals.
HHC says expansion of a community health center on the island’s north shore will be completed this summer, and two additional clinics are being developed in the future.
For WNYC, I’m Fred Mogul.
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