ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)- The COVID-19 pandemic uncovered New York’s weaknesses and strengths for coping with a well being care disaster. The most effective factor any state can do is be taught from the previous to construct again a greater plan to deal with the subsequent well being care disaster higher than COVID.
Though there are challenges, the state is in a greater place in the present day than it was a 12 months in the past, in line with the Belief for America’s Well being (TFAH). The group launched a report Thursday that ranks the preparedness of every state. There are three tiers rating states’ efficiency in dealing with well being crises, low, center, and excessive.
New York ranked within the low tier for efficiency in 2021 however was capable of attain the center tier in 2022 together with 19 different states together with Delaware, Maine, and New Hampshire on the east coast. TFAH checked out how a lot cash states spend on well being care, affected person security, workforce resiliency, and different indicators to rank efficiency.
| Tier | States |
| Low | Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming |
| Center | Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennesse, Texas, and Wisconsin |
| Excessive | Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Washington DC, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington |
New York’s direct neighbors, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Vermont had been all ranked within the excessive tier. New York was considered one of 9 states that improved by one tier. There have been three states that improved by two tiers and 16 states dropped a tier. TFAH mentioned that is partly as a result of a brand new indicator was added that takes into consideration the share of the inhabitants served by a complete public well being system.
Try how New York scored on every indicator within the desk under:
New York Indicator data
| Indicator | Data |
| Incident Administration Adoption of the Nurse Licensure Compact |
Doesn’t take part |
| Public Well being System Comprehensiveness Proportion of the inhabitants served by a complete public well being system |
77% |
| Institutional High quality Accreditation by the Public Well being Accreditation Board |
Accredited |
| Institutional High quality Accreditation by the Emergency Administration Accreditation Program |
Accredited |
| Institutional High quality Dimension of the state well being funds in comparison with the 12 months prior |
+7% |
| Water Safety Proportion of inhabitants that makes use of a water system that doesn’t meet all health-based requirements |
45% |
| Workforce Resiliency and An infection Management Proportion of employed that used paid break day throughout March 2020 |
60% |
| Countermeasure Utilization Vaccination price of inhabitants ages 6 months or older that obtained a flu shot |
55.6 |
| Affected person Security Proportion of hospitals with an “A” rating on the Leapfrog Hospital Security Grade |
8% |
| Well being Safety Surveillance The general public well being laboratory has a plan for a six-to-eight-week surge in testing capability |
Has a plan |
Elevated, versatile, and sustained public well being funding, modernization of laboratories, funding in public well being by anti-poverty applications in addition to a various and extremely expert public well being workforce are methods TFAH mentioned states can change into higher ready. Many of those points are addressed in New York’s 2023 funds.
“New York State and the State’s Division of Well being proceed to instantly reply to the COVID-19 pandemic, successfully handle the winter surge and the Omicron variant’s emergence, and put together for the wants forward, together with by new initiatives and unprecedented investments in public well being and pandemic response readiness by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s FY 2023 Govt Finances,” a spokesperson mentioned.
From replenishing the well being care workforce and guaranteeing that well being care staff have the assist they should extra funding for upgrades to state laboratories and the Medicaid program, Gov. Hochul plans to allocate thousands and thousands of {dollars} within the 2023 fiscal 12 months funds to ensure New York is able to tackle public well being and security challenges.