By Bill Forry
Dorchester Reporter
Members of a ‘working group’ asked to advise state and city leaders on the impacts of the closure of Carney Hospital – and the next steps to replace it – were announced this morning by city officials. The Dorchester unit, with 32 members, and a second like it that will focus on Nashoba Valley, includes public health officials, labor leaders, doctors, and elected officials.
The Carney team is co-chaired by Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, the commissioner of Public Health for the City of Boston, and Michael Curry, president and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers.
There are 11 “ex-officio” members, most of them elected officials, including US Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Stephen F. Lynch, state Sen. Nick Collins, state Rep. Brandy Fluker Oakley, and Boston City Councillors Ruthzee Louijeune and John FitzGerald. The state’s chief of Public Health, Dr. Robbie Goldstein, Boston EMS Chief James Holley, Dr. Kiame Mahaniah of the state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Boston’s new Chief of Planning Kairos Shem, and Amy Rosenthal of Health Care for All are also ex officio members.
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