The Power of Persistence: NewYork-Presbyterian Finally Accepts 9/11 Fund After NYDN Stories
Sometimes, you have to stick with a story. When I wrote before the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks about how NewYork-Presbyterian would not accept the World Trade Center Health Program's payment schedule, and how it creates a bureaucratic mess for ill 9/11 responders, the hospital didn't budge. It denied there were any problems. But I followed up this spring, writing up the experiences of former NYPD traffic supervisor Walter Clark and a ConEd high-voltage lineman Charli