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We are health professionals, who work every day to care for our
patients, promote wellness, and teach the next generation of
health
leaders. We support making paid family leave available to all
working families. The public health is at stake.
New Yorkers should not be compelled to choose between caring for
a newborn or seriously ill family member and their jobs and
incomes. Research evidence and our own experiences demonstrate
that supporting breastfeeding, enabling both mothers and
fathers to establish nurturing bonds with their infants,
reducing financial stress and the risks of poverty, and making it
possible
for working people to play critically important roles in
managing and supporting care for seriously ill children, spouses
and their
own aging parents will yield vital health benefits. We know that
children recover more quickly, and hospital discharges and care
transitions go more smoothly when a family caregiver is
present.
Paid leave is a good investment that will yield better health
and long run savings. But it is also our moral responsibility. Paid
familyleave will ensure that a mother can respond to her newborn’s
hungry cry, that a dad can be there to soothe a frightened,
hospitalized
child, and that a working son or daughter can step in to do all
that is needed when a parent suffers an incapacitating stroke.
The Paid Family Leave Insurance (A3870) bill passed last March
by the New York Assembly, and now awaiting action by the State
Senate and Governor Cuomo, would use a social insurance model to
make paid family leave affordable for all employers and
employees. This bill will modernize New York’s well-established
Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI) system to offer up to 12
weeks
of modest wage replacement for workers needing time to care for
their families. It will also provide more adequate benefits for
new
mothers physically recovering from childbirth, and for those
with disabilities already covered under TDI. Those benefits, frozen
at the
1989 rate of $170 a week, are long overdue for an increase.
New York has an illustrious history of public health leadership.
We urge enactment of statewide paid family leave to build on
that
legacy—starting here and now in New York—and pave the way
forward towards passage of national legislation for all
Americans.
HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN SUPPORT OF
NEW YORK STATE PAID FAMILY LEAVE
An Open Letter to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Members of the
New York State Senate
November 17, 2015
Organizations:
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Alzheimers Disease And Related Disorders, New York City,
Inc.
American Academy of Pediatrics New York, Chapters 2 and 3
Te American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,District
II
Birthing Center of Buffalo
Collaborative for Palliative Care
Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare, NewYork,
NY
Docs for ots
1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
Gay Men’s Health Crisis
Maternal Infant Services Network, Newburgh, NY
Mid-Hudson Lactation Consortium
Mothers’ Milk Bank Northeast
National Association of Social Workers, NYC Chapter
National Physicians Alliance - New York New York State
Nurses Association
New York State Public Health Association
Nurse Practitioners of New York
NY Milk Bank
NYS Breastfeeding Coalition
New York City Breastfeeding Leadership Council
Public Health Association of New York City
Raising Women’s Voices
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Ramy Abdelfattah, MD
Bechay Abdelmalak
Nina Agrawa1, MD
Masuma Ahmed, MD
Sana Akhter, MDKhorsheda Ali, DO, FACOG
Munab Almoadhu, MD
Seid Amin, MD
Laleh Amini, MD
Priya Anot-Joshi, MD
Albert Arslan, MD
Anarca Artz, MD
Jessica Atrio, MD
Obuamaka Atumonyogo, MD
Mariam Murtaza Au, MD
Lisa Austin, RNArpine Avagyan, MD
Mary Badame
Vicki Barr
Susan Banuelos, MD
Deborah Basso, MD (OB/GYN)
Santash Belbase, MD
Stanislav Belotserkovskiy, MD
Bennett Berkowitz, MD
A. Marie Betancourt, Parent Educator
Jessica Betancourt, MD
Dominyka Bitinaite, MDKendra Black, MD
Kioumars Bolourian, MD
Lauren Bonati, MD
Asmee Boussiliare, MD
Lorraine Boyd, MD
Nibash Budhatmoki, MD
Camille Caldwell, MD
Yvette Canaba, MD
Arthur Carter, MD
Nail Cemalovic, MD
Rajib Chakravarty, MDWendy Chavkin, MD, MPH
Judy Cheng, MD
Nitin Chilakamurri, MD
Priscilla Chukwueke, MD
Erin Ciummo, MD
Camille Clare, MD
David I. Cohen, MD
Patrice Cohen, MD
LuAnn Conte
Kathryn Dalia, RN
Kevin Davey, MD
Urmimala Das, MD
Jose De Leon, MD
Shilpa Desamuka, MDNanda Din, MD
Linda Du, MD
Benard P. Dreyer, MD
Ahmed Ebraheem, MD
Dianne Edgar, MD
Ayman El-Mohandes, MBBCH, MD, MPF,
Dean CUNY School of Public Health
Emma Eseet, MD
Maria Estevez, RN
Marianne C. Fahs, PhD, MPH
Janice Falls, MDFaramarz Fanaian, MD
Emily Finkelstein, MD, Geriatrics
Lindsay Flax, MD
Melanie Flores, MD
Craig Forleiter, MD
Evan Fowle, MD
Patricia M. Frino, RN
David Gandell, MD, Clinical Professor of
OB/GYN (Rochester)
Diana Garretto, MD
George GreshamRobin Gitman
Sena Gong, MD
John Green, Respiratory Terapist
Jacob Greenberg, MD
Jason Greenman, MD
Diane Groneman, Respiratory Terapist
Patricio Guaiquil, MD
Rohit Gupta, MD
Prema Hampapur, MD
Craig Harrison, MD
Heather Hart, RNJennifer Hawkins, RN
Wilson Heredia, MD
Ruben Hernandez, MD
Sally Heron, LMSW
Roger Hill-Sukie, MD
Christina Ho, MD
Caitlin Hogan
Joe Hong, MD
Austin Howard, MD
Andrew Hromada, MD
Maryanne Huber, RN
Ibrahim El Husseini, MD
Elizabeth A. Isakson, MD
Osman Jilani, MDMaria Jose Jimenez, MD
Leesa John, RN
Nancy Joly, RN
William B. Jordan, MD, MPH
Divya Jose, MD
Jessy Joseph, MD
Piotr Kapinos, MD
amar Kaman, MD
Dana Karanik, Administrator
Teodoros Katasichtis, MD
Eve Kellner, MDSteve Kerfien
Amy Kessler, RN
Mazin Khalid, MD
San Khine, MD
Natalya Knafel, MD
Esther Koai, MD
Suman Kogana, MD
Ben Kohanim, MD
racy Kosciuk, RN
Paul Kruger, MD
Salil Kulkarni, MDEsther Kwon, MD
Alan Labor, MD
Sheneen Lalani, MD
Ellen Landsberger, MD
R. Lastimesza, MD
Jooyeon Lee, MD
Guillermo Leoz, MD
Joe Lequerica, MD
Rachel Levene, MD
David Lewandowski, MD
Kandace Licciardi, MDCathenne Lott, MD
Amy Lucier, MD
Cheryl A. Luttinger, Nurse Practitioner
Roshan Mahabir, MD
Sareena Manhas, MD
Kathleen Manning, RN
Prasanna Marpu, MD
Nourah Mazid, MD
Health Care Professionals:
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