Schenectady community protests hospital merger
'Save our services' was a slogan seen and heard around Veterans Park in Schenectady Sunday afternoon, as dozens showed up to show their concern about the future merger of Trinity Health and Ellis Medicine.
“This is a cry out for Ellis to hear us,” Nikita Hardy, a commissioner on the Schenectady County Human Rights Commission, said. “I’m really happy with the turnout, I’m happy we’ve had these conversations leading up to it. And this is very crucial, we don’t want to lose these services, we don’t want to lose choices.”
These services that Hardy fears may be lost are things like vasectomies, and gender affirming care for LGBTQ community members.
“A lot of these services will take away their core choices that people make on the autonomy of their bodies,” Hardy said. “So we are calling out for them to not take this away so we don’t have a disparity impact in our community.
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And they were also the very first hospital Upstate to have the vaccine. My two friends who work at the local hospital here (one in the ER) were the first I knew to get vaccinated - they drove down to Ellis when they were given the opportunity back in January to get the Pfizer. 