Healthcare & Hospitals

Khari Edwards Promises Health Equity for Brooklyn

Brooklyn Borough President candidate Khari Edwards has pledged to allocate $500,000 annually to safety net hospitals for essential capital upgrades and new equipment, drawing from a $500 million budget the Borough President can manage. This investment aims to strengthen the infrastructure and quality of care provided to Brooklyn’s most vulnerable populations.

Op-ed | The state of healthcare in Central Brooklyn

As a native Brooklynite, I know firsthand the gem Downstate Hospital has been to our community. Over the years we have seen so many of our local healthcare facilities forced to operate over capacity and underfunded, but SUNY Downstate was always different, or so we thought.