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Provider Overview In 2025, the Eddy Memorial Geriatric Center of St. Peter’s Health Partners received a $3.9 million award from the New York State Department of Health Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program (SHCFTP) IV, for the “creation of a Dementia Village for residents of their 40-bed Memory Care Unit, utilizing vacant space formerly used by the Eddy Daybreak program.” The project will receive $2 million from the Samaritan Eddy Foundation through a capital

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On May 29, 2026, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning Leila Bozorg released a 112-page housing plan, titled Block by Block. The plan offers a wide-ranging strategy for housing policy, including zoning and administrative process changes to expand the siting opportunities for affordable housing, tenant protection, preservation of affordable housing, major renovation projects at New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), and homelessness red

Dental Therapy: a Workforce Strategy for Expanding Access to Care

The One Big Beautiful Big Act (HR 1), enacted in July 2025, changed eligibility criteria related to both immigration status and “community engagement” for various federal benefits programs and established the most significant national eligibility-related reporting requirements to date. “Community engagement requirements” are often called “work requirements.” This paper uses these terms interchangeably.

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Issue Brief by Sally Dreslin PDF Available: Introduction The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly expanded across industries in recent years, transforming operations, decision-making processes, and user experiences. From automation and predictive analytics to generative models produced by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, among others, enterprises across sectors are increasingly utilizing AI to gain efficiency and pursue innovation. In healthcare, some examples of are

Commentary #32 by Paul Francis

This Issue Brief examines the issues related to the inclusion of outpatient behavioral health services under managed care.

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Oral health is a core component of overall health, with population-level gains driven largely by preventive public health interventions. As this is the Step Two Policy Project’s first publication focused exclusively on oral health, this Issue Brief begins with an overview of dental care delivery in Part I, then turns to the challenges facing individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Part II.

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