The city’s health department is taking baby steps toward Mayor Eric Adams’ campaign promise to provide coaches known as doulas to all first-time parents giving birth. It’s been talking to maternal care providers about plans to spend $2 million a year to bring on up to 10 organizations to provide doulas in neighborhoods with high […]
Thousands of New Yorkers have struggled to redeem their $100 vaccine incentive debit cards — some for weeks — as the company that administers them says it is trying to resolve issues with sign-ups. FiCentive, a division of the San Antonio-based financial technology firm Usio that supplies the debit cards, received a $50 million no-bid contract […]
By Claudia Irizarry Aponte Sindy Nanclares had to drive to the Upper East Side from her Forest Hills home to give blood last month. In Brooklyn, Ben Kabak hasn’t found a donation drive within walking distance of his home. And James Feldman’s April blood donation appointment was immediately cancelled after he booked it back […]
