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2020
2019
Preview: As the coronavirus pandemic began to take hold in New York City in March — right before the city became the epicenter of the country’s outbreak — Dr. Jake Deutsch had to make a quick pivot.
Strict stay-at-home measures implemented by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, combined with fear of catching the virus, kept many New Yorkers avoiding trips to the doctor’s office. So Deutsch shifted his two Cure Urgent Care centers in Manhattan away from its bread-and-butter of treating cuts, bruises and colds to focus mainly on COVID-19 testing and treatment.
Preview: For more than a year, public and private health insurance providers have been reimbursing doctors for telemedicine visits, a pandemic-fueled tectonic shift in the U.S. healthcare system that has doctors reimagining how they will practice medicine in the future.
Preview: As the trajectory of the coronavirus epidemic in New York City threatens to overwhelm the city’s health care system, the de Blasio administration’s effort to get ahead of the curve is turning into a real estate problem. The city plans to convert properties such as hotels and parking lots into medical facilities to handle the anticipated surge in patients.