STATE CAN BOUNCE ESPADA NETWORK FROM MEDICAID: JUDGE
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
A Bron judge on Thursday upheld the Cuomo administration’s decision to dump ex-state Sen. Pedro Espada’s Bronx health care network from the Medicaid program.
The decision could spell the end for Espada’s Soundview Health Care Network because Medicaid bucks account for some 70% of its funding.
MEDICAL RESEARCHERS LINK SOCCER HEADERS TO BRAIN DAMAGE
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Brain researchers from the Bronx are scoring big with some heady soccer research.
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center researchers are working to make the popular sport safer for athletes all over the world, using new medical imaging technology purchased with funds allocated by the City Council.
Led by radiologist and neurologist Dr. Michael Lipton, their work has shown that repeatedly heading a soccer ball increases the risk of brain injury. Beyond that, brain imaging and cognitive tests have revealed a never-before-known danger threshold: 1,100 to 1,500 headers per year.
DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION UNVEILS NEW SLUDGE PLAN
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The city plans to start trucking its sewer sludge out-of-state, the Daily News has learned.
The Department of Environmental Protection has selected WeCare Organics to transport the sludge generated during wastewater treatment to rural Pennsylvania. Until June 2010, the toxic substance was handled at a stinky facility in Hunts Point, the Bronx.
FIREFIGHTER DELIVERS BABY IN THE BRONX, SAVING INFANT AND MOM
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Kaden Bell could be the Bravest baby in the Bronx.
The bright-eyed infant was delivered by a firefighter on the bathroom floor of a Mott Haven apartment on Tuesday morning.
Firefighter Sarina Olmo of Engine Co. 83 coached anxious mother Maybelline Marti through the dramatic birth, cut the umbilical cord wrapped around Kaden’s neck and held the tiny baby all the way from E. 141st St. to Lincoln Hospital.
QUACK GETS 8 MONTHS FOR FATAL BUTT IMPLANT SURGERY
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN AND KEVIN DEUTSCH (NYDN)
A “cold and calculating” quack Bronx plastic surgeon whose botched butt implants killed a woman was sentenced to three to nine months in prison Monday.
Elsa Then, 58, broke into sobs when Judge Martin Marcus gave her jail time instead of the probation for which her lawyer begged.
He also admonished her for preying on Hispanic women who frequented her flourishing, but illegal, cosmetology practice.
HERO BRONX FIREFIGHTERS HONORED BY COUNCILMAN JAMES VACCA
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The Finest saluted The Bravest on Monday, honoring a trio of heroic Bronx firefighters who chased down and corralled a suspected thief over the weekend.
NYPD Deputy Inspector Kevin Nicholson of the 49th Precinct and City Councilman James Vacca thanked the speedy smokeeaters at their firehouse on White Plains Road in Van Nest.
NYCHA BOOTS VET TO CURB OVER TECHNICALITY
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
David Maurinac served his country as a Marine, worked as a missionary, cared for his sick father and paid his rent on time.
But last Friday, the New York City Housing Authority kicked him to the curb, says a local City Councilman.
107-YEAR-OLD BRONXITE SHARES SOLEMN MESSAGE
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
Times are tough in the Bronx in these days of recession and 12% unemployment.
But Louise (Big Momma) Mitchell, who turned 107 last Sunday, has survived hardships that people today can barely imagine.
Born in the Deep South town of Warrenton, Ga., in 1904, Mitchell went to work picking cotton at the age of 5.
MONKS SELLING RIVERDALE TRACT TO JEWISH NURSING HOME
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
A sprawling Riverdale estate overlooking the Hudson River is changing hands - and religions. The Passionist Fathers of Riverdale are selling off the 14-acre plot to the Hebrew Home for the Aged for $16.2 million. It includes a 116-year-old mansion with views of the New Jersey Palisades and a large retreat house.
ESPADA HEALTH CARE NETWORK STILL SHOWS PULSE
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
The Bronx health care network run by disgraced former state Sen. Pedro Espada may live to fight another day, after a Bronx judge granted the clinics more time Wednesday to defend their Medicaid funding.
