NYAPRS Note: Below are two articles from this week’s Crain’s Health Pulse that highlight the ongoing tension surrounding the closures of two hospitals in Brooklyn. As the state moves toward integrated practice settings and away from institutional care, private hospital systems often have two options: adapt to community-based service delivery models, or risk bankruptcy and failure. There is a continuous balance between policy reforms and budget agendas set by state lawmakers and agencies in Albany, with competing interests and the regional preferences and needs of hospitals, unions, and community members. This balance is particularly difficult to manage with healthcare systems in the five boroughs. Various viewpoints all seek to answer the question: what is our system going to look like in the coming generation? To raise your voice in answering this question, join DOHMH and NYAPRS at two upcoming forums: November 1 @ 125 Worth St. in Manhattan from 2-5pm, and November 7 @ Brooklyn Borough Hall from 11am-2pm.