Health and Hospitals Corporation

A Partner in the CTSI

The Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) is the largest public hospital system in the U.S., and the leadership of this system has agreed to partner with NYU in the establishment of the CTSI. HHC operates 11 acute care hospitals, 4 long term care facilities, 6 diagnostic and treatment facilities, a certified home health agency, and more than 100 community health clinics. Overwhelmingly, the major payers are Medicaid, Bad Debt, and Charity Pools from State and Federal Programs.

Uncompensated care has been increasing annually and currently represents $500 million dollars per annum. Each year, HHC treats approximately 1.3 million individuals, or one out of every five New Yorkers. The system provides 5.1 million ambulatory visits that include primary, specialty and emergency care and discharges over 210,000 patients from its acute hospitals.

In addition to its primary mission to provide care to patients regardless of their ability to pay, HHC plays several other critical roles in NYC and for the U.S. HHC works closely with the Department of Health in NYC in a public health role for communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, smallpox, SARS, HIV and others, prevention programs such as smoking cessation and vaccination as well as chronic disease initiatives in depression, diabetes, asthma and CHF.

HHC has an extensive and diversified psychiatry program (including 1227 inpatient beds and 18071 discharges) across all of its facilities with capacity to care for dual diagnosed patients with significant co-morbidities that include HIV disease, alcohol and drug addictions and a full range of medical issues. Emergency Preparedness has become a significant additional role for the entire HHC system post 9/11 in collaboration with City, State and Federal partners through an extensive emergency-trauma system, surge capacity and training initiative.

HHC plays another vital role in training future generations of physicians and health professionals through its extensive affiliation relationships with the NYC medical schools that provide clinical faculty, medical students and residency programs through mutually cooperative long standing agreements. These include:

• NYU School of Medicine (Bellevue Hospital)
• Albert Einstein School of Medicine (Jacobi Hospital)
• Columbia University School of Physicians and Surgeons (Harlem Hospital)
• Downstate School of Medicine (Kings County Hospital)
• New York Medical College (Metropolitan Hospital)
• Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (Elmhurst and Queens Hospitals)
• Cornell Medical School (Lincoln Hospital)

It also includes many nursing schools, physician assistant programs, radiology technician programs, pharmacy programs etc. NYC provides training for 25% of the graduating residents in the U.S. and a significant portion of that training is provided at HHC facilities.

HHC will play a significant role in the CTSI. In particular, the HHC hospitals affiliated with the Southern Manhattan Healthcare Network (Bellevue Hospital Center and Gouverneur Healthcare Services), Coler-Goldwater Hospitals (Chronic Care Facilities on Roosevelt Island) as well as Lincoln Hospital (Bronx) and Woodhull Hospital (Brooklyn), will be institutional partners in the CTSI. These hospitals have access to a large and diverse patient population that span the entire New York City metropolitan area.

Visit the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation website.