Closing the Center for Family Medicine would not only cut vital services for patients in the impoverished New York City community of Washington Heights, but it would also abruptly force residents there to reapply for new residency programs and faculty to teach or practice elsewhere. Medical students, faculty and administrators at Columbia University Medical Center, which is affiliated with the hospital, described the decision as a surprise that lacked any kind of transparency. The decision emerges amid an ongoing nationwide push under the Affordable Care Act to expand and strengthen primary care services - such as family medicine - in order to both rein in medical spending and make patients healthier. One of the top hospitals in the United States, the New York Presbyterian Hospital, has planned to close its family medicine center at the end of June 2016, IBT has learned. Sodomick did not immediately respond to questions requesting more details and clarification regarding the initial decision to close the Center for Family Care. We will be accepting an additional class of residents in its current form as we explore the development – in close collaboration with faculty, residents and medical students - of other potential models of primary care training and delivery in the future." Community Health Center will stay open and the faculty will remain. In a statement emailed Tuesday to International Business Times, Karen Sodomick, a vice president of public affairs at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, said, "After listening to feedback from our medical staff, we have decided that the family medicine residency program at The Herman “Denny” Farrell Jr. Mehdi Taamallah/AFP/Getty ImagesĪfter reports said Tuesday that New York-Presbyterian Hospital would shutter its family medicine program in 2016, a spokeswoman for the hospital said it would keep open at least one clinic within the program, although details about what changes that decision would spell for the next academic year, as well as the fate of other clinics at the Center for Family Medicine, remained unclear. Sources described the decision as abrupt and lacking transparency. One of the top hospitals in the United States, the New York Presbyterian Hospital, plans to close its family medicine center in June 2016.
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