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CHRISTMAS EVE CAROLING AND SLEEP-OUT AT ST. VINCENTS HOSPITAL

New York, NY (Dec. 21, 2011) On Christmas Eve, an ad hoc group of community activists will be standing outside the former Emergency Room of St. Vincents Hospital, singing Christmas Carols and distributing Band-Aids. START: Saturday, December 24, 2011, 7:00 p.m. END : Sunday, December 25, 2011, 7:00 a.m. PLACE : St. Vincents Hospital, Seventh Avenue South and West 11th Street Activists will sing Christmas Carols to celebrate the charitable role of St. Vincents in New York City history for caring for lives during the cholera epidemic of 1849, the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, the AIDS crisis during the 1980s, the September 11 attacks, and the Hudson River landing of a jet airplane in 2009. Activists will also hand out Band-Aid bandages as a symbol of the Band-Aid approach to public health as a result of the inferior North Shore-LIJ/Lenox Hill urgent care center, which is being pushed onto the community by politicians, lobbyists, and Bill Rudin. SOME ACTIVISTS WILL SPEND THE NIGHT OUTSIDE IN SLEEPING BAGS ON THE FRIGID SIDEWALK, TO DEMONSTRATE HOW PATIENTS ARE BEING LEFT OUT IN THE COLD IN THE NEW POTTERSVILLE TREND IN HEALTHCARE IN NEW YORK STATE. In the short term, activists want to force civic leaders, such as billionaire Bill Rudin of the Rudin Management Company, to take the lead in building a Level 1 Trauma Center and full-service hospital to replace St. Vincents. In the long term, activists demand a single-payer healthcare system in New York State to put an end to the constant healthcare cuts, layoffs, hospital closings, and corruption that is endemic in the states broken healthcare system. Just this year alone, witness the bribery cases against MediSys chief executive David P. Rosen and New York State Senator Carl Kruger, each of whom were involved in hospital-related corruption. For more information : https://www.facebook.com/events/323722307646371/ ###

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