$6-Million Gift Restores Diabetes Center
April 3, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Beth Israel Medical Center, a diabetes clinic in Manhattan, will get a second chance thanks to a $6-million donation from the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research, reports The New York Times.
The center opened in 1999 but closed a year later because it did not make enough money to operate.
Scheduled to reopen in July, the clinic will encourage patients to pay closer attention to their nutrition and show them how to control their blood-sugar levels.
The newspaper said that Beth Israel, like other medical centers, ran intro financial trouble because insurance companies tend to limit their reimbursements to acute-care needs, rather than paying for efforts to prevent complications from diseases like diabetes.
