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☆ Pennsylvania Hospital Suspends Its Liver Transplant Program
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Brian M. Rosenthal | Jessica Silver-Greenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A major Pennsylvania hospital shut down its liver transplant program last week, becoming the second medical center this month to take such an unusual step. The hospital, the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, said Monday that it had closed the program and submitted to a review from federal officials. “The decision to inactivate comes after concerns about clinical processes and documentation were identified,” the hospital said in a statement. Hospital officials would not comment about those accusations. The Hershey closure comes just weeks after Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston suspended its liver and kidney transplant programs.

Persons: Penn State Health Milton, inactivate, Hershey Organizations: Penn State Health, Hershey Medical Center, New York Times, Hermann, Texas Medical Center, Times Locations: Pennsylvania, Houston

The New York Times is interested in the organ transplant system. Do you have a tip about irregularities in the system? If you are a doctor, nurse, technician or anybody else working on organ transplants, we’d love to hear from you. We are also eager to talk to from medical residents working in those transplant programs. And of course, we also want to hear from patients and their families.

Organizations: New York Times

☆ Texas Surgeon Is Accused of Secretly Denying Liver Transplants
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Brian M. Rosenthal | Jessica Silver-Greenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For decades, Dr. J. Steve Bynon Jr., a transplant surgeon in Texas, gained accolades and national prominence for his work, including by helping to enforce professional standards in the country’s sprawling organ transplant system. But officials are now investigating allegations that Dr. Bynon was secretly manipulating a government database to make some of his own patients ineligible to receive new livers, potentially depriving them of lifesaving care. Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, where Dr. Bynon oversaw both the liver and kidney transplant programs, abruptly shut down those programs in the past week while looking into the allegations. On Thursday, the medical center, a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Texas, said in a statement that it had found evidence that a doctor in its liver transplant program had effectively denied patients transplants by changing records. Officials identified the physician as Dr. Bynon, who is employed by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and has had a contract to lead Memorial Hermann’s abdominal transplant program since 2011.

Persons: J, Steve Bynon Jr, Bynon, Hermann Organizations: Texas Medical Center, University of Texas, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston Locations: Texas, Houston

Later, on Twitter, now known as X, Ms. Salazar said she did not have any evidence that there was a pattern of corporal punishment in yeshivas. Ms. Salazar did not respond to a message seeking comment on Thursday. Assemblyman Charles Lavine, a Nassau Democrat who sponsored the legislation, said he wrote the bill because he did not know corporal punishment was allowed in private schools until reading about it in The Times. “I am very pleased that New York is protecting our children by outlawing the use of physical punishment in our schools,” he said on Thursday. In June, New York City completed its own long-stalled investigation into Hasidic boys’ schools.

Persons: Julia Salazar, Salazar, Charles Lavine, ” Organizations: Democrat, Times, Twitter, Nassau Democrat Locations: Brooklyn, The Times, “, New York, New York City

☆ 18 Hasidic Schools Failed to Provide Basic Education, New York City Finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Eliza Shapiro | Brian M. Rosenthal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If the findings are upheld by the state education department, as is expected, the schools could be required to submit detailed improvement plans and face government monitoring. The law, however, does not make clear what consequences the schools might face if they do not commit to improving. A spokesman for the city’s Department of Education said in a statement that it had performed a “thorough, fair review” of the Hasidic schools. “Schools that are found to not provide a substantially equivalent education will work with the Department of Education to create and implement a remediation plan,” the spokesman, Nathaniel Styer, said. Hasidic leaders have defended the schools previously, saying they prepared students for happy and fulfilling lives in the Hasidic community.

Persons: Nathaniel Styer, “ Organizations: city’s Department of Education, “, Department of Education, ”, The New York Times Locations: Brooklyn, Hudson

☆ The ‘Fiercely Loyal’ Adams Adviser Agitating From Inside City Hall
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Brian M. Rosenthal | Jeffery C. Mays | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the days after Eric Adams was elected mayor of New York, several of his supporters approached him with some uncomfortable advice. They urged him not to hire his closest ally, Ingrid P. Lewis-Martin, for his administration, according to six people with knowledge of the conversations. It was an audacious suggestion. But the group of supporters argued that Ms. Lewis-Martin could cause trouble at City Hall, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. They noted that when Mr. Adams was Brooklyn borough president and Ms. Lewis-Martin was his deputy, she had alienated staff members and pushed the limits of ethics rules.

Persons: Eric Adams, Ingrid P, Lewis, Martin, Adams, “, God Organizations: City Hall Locations: New York, Brooklyn

☆ How Hasidic Schools Reaped a Windfall of Special Education Funding
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Brian M. Rosenthal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

About 80 percent of requests for special education teacher support services last year came from the predominantly Hasidic and Orthodox districts, records show. But in Hasidic areas, more than a dozen parents told The Times that religious schools were driving the surge, including by paying for the lawyers who represent parents at hearings. Most parents spoke on condition of anonymity because openly criticizing Hasidic leaders can lead to being shunned by family and friends. Five hearing officers told The Times that in proceedings involving Hasidic children, some parents have not seemed to know what they were requesting, or why. “Please can you have her medical doctor write a prescription stating diagnosis of F84.0,” the email said.

Organizations: Times, Chabad Girls Academy, The Times Locations: Crown Heights

Eliza Shapiro is a reporter covering New York City education. She joined The Times in 2018 and grew up in New York, attending public and private schools in Manhattan and Brooklyn. @elizashapiro

Persons: Eliza Shapiro Organizations: Times Locations: New York City, New York, Manhattan, Brooklyn

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. The Hasidic Jewish community has long operated one of New York’s largest private schools on its own terms, resisting any outside scrutiny of how its students are faring. But in 2019, the school, the Central United Talmudical Academy, agreed to give state standardized tests in reading and math to more than 1,000 students. Students at nearly a dozen other schools run by the Hasidic community recorded similarly dismal outcomes that year, a pattern that under ordinary circumstances would signal an education system in crisis. But where other schools might be struggling because of underfunding or mismanagement, these schools are different.

Organizations: New York Times, Central United Talmudical Academy

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