Embracing “Good Trouble”
The Justice Center of Rensselaer County is dedicated to achieving equality for all.
Join us for the third annual Robert J. Doherty Memorial Lecture, “Healthcare Justice » Diagnosis: Code Blue,” featuring John Baackes, retired CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan, America’s largest public health plan with 2.6 million members.
With 48 years in managed healthcare, Baackes will explore the intersecting crises facing our healthcare system—from local disputes like CDPHP’s clashes with St. Peter’s and Albany Med, to the near closure of Troy’s Burdett Birth Center, to national threats like Medicaid cuts and the rise of profit-driven insurance. He’ll propose solutions, including more public health plans like those in California, and address why even doctors struggle to navigate today’s complex system. A Q&A will follow.
Baackes calls it a “code blue” for American healthcare—don’t miss this urgent discussion on justice and reform in the Capital Region and beyond!
Letter to the Editor: Should DEC be ‘defunded’ in wake of Dunn landfill permit renewal?
Bob Blackmon, Troy When I was a department chair at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in the 1980s and '90s, I had rather close contact with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, and I had high regard for and confidence in that...
The Robert J. Doherty Memorial Lecture on Environmental Justice, Sunday April 14, 2024 @ University at Albany School of Public Health, Rensselaer, NY. Keynote by Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics.
In 2020, the Justice Center of Rensselaer County, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was created to achieve equality and promote a welcoming and diverse community by addressing persistent and structural prejudice in the political, economic, educational, and social systems in the county.
