No. It's quite closed right now. If you want to be super specific, it still has a functioning pharmacy and radiology dept, but no patients to go to them.
They merged with Flushing Hosp and Jamaica Hosp creating a system where 2/3 hospitals are bankrupt. So NY state has to keep them alive otherwise 3 hospitals in the city would close.
This is completely incorrect
It is still running and med students are still rotating there.
Just talked with a LECOM student today, confirmed that to the best of that student's knowledge there are no more LECOM students there, that they've been emergency swapped to SJEH and other NYC sites they rotate at due to the lack of any patients at peninsula. I imagine a similar situation is happening with NYCOM students.
I knew people who are residents at Peninsula and they were hoping it would close, so they can easily get a better residency spot elsewhere. (when your hospital closes, you become "free agent" meaning caps dont apply to you. So when St Vincents closed, their residents went to better residency programs even though those programs were filled.)
This is half true. But you don't become free agents. I got to witness the St. Vincent's debacle as it happened. You don't become a "free agent" and you dont necessarily go to a better program (though most programs might be an upgrade from peninsula). A better example is that you become an orphan, not a free agent. If your program is particularly enticing (like peninsula's ortho program) another ortho program attempts to absorb the residents. They still need to justify with the centers for medicare and medicaid services that the new hospital has the patient flow to justify the additional residents. I think the ortho students will eventually be fine for this reason since ortho is desired and its probably busy enough of a service at other hospitals to justify adding more residents
On the other hand, if youre any one of their other programs (regular surgery for example) this is a nightmare as not that many programs in NYC can justify taking on more surgery residents. Its a rather oversaturated field, despite the "underserved area" that most of NYC is. As St. Vincent's proved, if a new program doesnt adopt you immediately you actually have to re-enter the match. Yes. Re-enter the match. Or you can begin trying to contact hospitals and sign contracts with them to fill holes left by residents who failed out, were kicked out, gave up medicine part way through residency, or died. These spots exist, but they are very few in number and how the hell you find them is beyond me. The fact of the matter is that if you aren't an adopted program, the CMS simply looks at it as money saved and the programs funds "disappear" and are used to fund some new hospitals venture into the world of residency training, in whatever program they might desire. Being a resident, in this situation, is a nightmare.
The only silver lining is that, while i personally think the state will try to keep the place closed to stick it to Revival (the owners of the hospital), there is also plenty of reason to believe that the hospital will re-open in 1-2 months if it makes appropriate changes. It re-opens the residents are likely fine. likely. I dont know enough about the specifics of that hospital, its affiliates, or GME in specifics, to know if they could keep up appropriate training without a mother hospital for 1-2 months.
