Windsor Terrace Has High Uninsured Rate But No Public Hospitals

WINDSOR TERRACE, BROOKLYN — Windsor Terrace's community district has among Brooklyn's highest rate of uninsured New Yorkers yet not one public hospital, a new Independent Budget Office study shows.

About 12 percent of Brooklynites who reside in Community District 7 — which covers Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park — live without health insurance and immediate access to a hospital, according to the IBO report released Monday.

That's almost double the citywide average in 2017, when 615,000 New York citizens, or about 7 percent, went without health insurance, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

Windsor Terrace's Community District was one of two neighborhoods called out in the IBO report for the lack of public hospitals.

Queens' Community Board 7, which covers Flushing and Murray Hill, had the city's highest uninsured rate at 15.5 percent and no public hospital facilities.

The report was designed to test the efficacy of Mayor Bill de Blasio's new $100 million-a-year health initiative slated to launch in The Bronx next month.

NYC Care — an NYC Health + Hospital program that will link uninsured New Yorkers to primary care providers and the public health system’s MetroPlus insurance plan — is expected to be up and running by 2020.

The IBO analysts argued the program's success would depend on geography, since uninsured New Yorkers would need to find a public hospital or clinic to access services.

Read the full report and see the IBO map of city hospitals near uninsured New Yorkers here.