It recently faced the threat of cutbacks from the state in March of 2021 - a suggestion vehemently opposed by local leaders. John’s Episcopal Hospital is currently the only hospital on the peninsula. The facility would be financed through the city’s Strategy for Equity and Economic Development Fund, aimed at ensuring essential services across the city’s oft forgotten communities.
“This is more than a to-do list - it is a complete reset with more than 70 concrete actions we will take to tear down the barriers to progress and build up a strong, resilient city with opportunity for everyone.” “New York City’s recovery cannot and will not be about going back to the way things were,” Adams said during the announcement. “Through a new public health facility and improvements to local parks, the City will provide local access to new community health resources and wellness programs, modeled after programs elsewhere in the city,” the plan reads. Part of the plan includes building a new hospital on the 11-mile long peninsula. His newly announced plan, “Rebuild, Renew, Reinvent: A Blueprint for New York City’s Economic Recovery,” suggests investment “in improving long-term health outcomes in Downtown Far Rockaway.” Last week, Mayor Eric Adams promised more support was on the way. During the early days of the pandemic, the Rockaway peninsula faced higher than average rates of COVID-19 – and it did so with just one hospital.
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