🤍 We are a coalition trying to preserve evidence-based + inclusive health care upon merger of Ellis Medicine & St. Peter’s Health Partners / Trinity Health.
Join the movement to Save Our Services!
Ensure Ellis, SPHP and Trinity Health are transparent & accountable to our community as they merge healthcare systems.
Ellis Medicine (which includes Ellis Hospital, Bellevue Woman’s Center, the McClellan Street Health Center and the Medical Center of Clifton Park) is merging with St. Peter’s Health Partners, which is part of Trinity Catholic’s health system, a billion-dollar company that includes 90+ hospitals across the country.
Why is this merger concerning? St. Peter’s and Trinity operate under Catholic health restrictions that prohibit the delivery of key reproductive health services, gender-affirming care and certain end-of-life treatment options and can delay or deny care for pregnancy emergencies, such as miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies.
St. Peter’s/Trinity already is directing Ellis Medicine under a management contract begun five years ago, at an undisclosed annual cost to Ellis. Recently, surgical services were removed from Bellevue Woman’s Center and moved to Ellis Hospital without any engagement with the community.
Which Ellis Medicine services are threatened if the merger moves forward without clear, enforceable conditions?
Reproductive care, including contraception, abortion, tubal ligations, vasectomies and infertility services.
LGBTQ+-inclusive care, including gender affirming treatments and surgeries.
Patient’s rights to end-of-life self-determination, such as choosing death with dignity.
New York State Officials must ensure transparency and protection of access to care.
What is Next?
If you’re concerned about consolidated care in the capital region, join the SCHA!
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When hospitals merge, our services are threatened.
A history of hospital mergers in the New York State Capital Region since 2000:
Source: New York State Nurses Association
On August 13, 2025, We joined New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) joined forces, elected officials, and community allies to hold a town hall meeting, demanding that Ellis Medicine restore surgical services at Bellevue Woman’s Center. Ellis had cut most surgical services at Bellevue in the operating room and outpatient settings and drastically pulled the timeline forward, ending them on August 22, 2025 instead of December 2025.
