Over the last couple of years, when dwindling finances seemed to push the State University of New York’s Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn toward the verge of privatization and threatened the stability of 3,000 jobs represented by the United University Professions, it and the New York State Public Employees Federation worked with local organizations and religious leaders to plan rallies, meetings and forums.
They also proposed a “safety net” plan to affiliate more than a dozen hospitals to create outpatient centers and help retrain medical staff from the borough.
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