Richard Daines, the former state health commissioner, passed away this weekend, Michael Bloomberg announced at the start of his press conference at Metrotech in Brooklyn, this morning.
Daines was appointed by Governor Eliot Spitzer in 2007, and subsequently worked under Governor David Paterson. Among his notable efforts, he sought to curb the intake of sugary drinks Read More
ALBANY—Swine flu is upon us. And New York has responded, in part, by spending over $19,000 on 546 hand sanitizer dispensers that are now dotting the walls of state buildings near elevators.
"The Office of General Services continues to support Governor David A. Paterson and Dr. Richard Daines, Commissioner of the Department of Health, Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson will introduce a bill to require chain restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus, taking a New York City law and extending it statewide.
The bill would, according to a press release, require all "restaurants, mobile vendors, grocery stores, convenience stores and other retail stores belonging to chains that do business Read More
ALBANY—SEIU 1199, the health care union that along with the Greater New York Hospital Association has taken a strong position against David Paterson's plan to restructure health care, last night issued a public invitation for State Health Commissioner Richard Daines to speak at a rally they're holding today. Apparently the invitation wasn't public enough Read More
ALBANY—An advocate at Housing Works sent over this photo from a demonstration the organization put together today outside the offices of the Greater New York Hospital Association, which, along with union 1199 has been running ads decrying David Paterson's proposed health care restructuring.
Housing Works is calling Ken Raske, GNYHA's president a chicken for Read More
Health Commissioner Richard Daines is striking out (via YouTube) at Ken Raske, the head of the Greater New York Hospital Association who is among the people responsible for a blistering anti-Paterson ad campaign.
Here, Daines takes Raske to talk for what he says is a refusal to engage in a public debate about the Read More
It's Day Two of a passive-aggressive blitz by the Paterson administration to make their case that funding should be shifted from hospitals—on whose behalf there has been intense lobbying in the form of extensive, anti-Paterson advertising—to preventive care and health clinics.
David Paterson returned Friday morning to one such institution—the William F. Ryan Clinic—in Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson is committed to spending "a lot" of the federal stimulus money intended for health care on health care, but told a group of medical professionals that "before we start to pour billions of dollars in from President Obama's stimulus package, we need change."
Paterson made the case for shifting spending from hospital Read More
ALBANY—Health Commissioner Dr. Richard Daines has taken back to YouTube to defend David Paterson's proposed tax on sugary drinks -- this time in Spanish.
Dr. Daines learned the language as a Mormon missionary in the early 1970s in Bolivia, according to Health Department spokeswoman Claudia Hutton.
"He feels he loses touch with a lot of Read More
ALBANY—Health officials unveiled this new Web site which allows the reader to see what ZIP codes have the highest rates of hospitalization for preventative ailments.
Dr. Richard Daines, commissioner of the state health department, said that in addition to showing where preventative services need to be bulked up, "the data is also very useful Read More
State health commissioner Richard Daines, who wants a major crackdown of smoking in the movie industry, stopped short today of endorsing a bill that would ban smoking in cars carrying children.Here’s a brief excerpt of a television interview Raines had with Gabe Pressman, which was taped this morning but will air Sunday:PRESSMAN: Would you--would you Read More
Just the thing the state's new health commissioner needs when getting confirmed as a member of Eliot Spitzer's administration: a "ringing endorsement" from state Senator Efrain Gonzalez, who is under indictment for using public money to, among other things, support his cigar company. The new health commissioner, Richard Daines, was Gonzalez's personal physician, Read More
