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Introduction

125 Worth Street
New York, New York 10013
U.S.A.
Telephone: (212) 788-3339
Fax: (212) 788-3348
Web site: http://www.nyc.gov/hhc

Government-Owned Corporation
Incorporated: 1969
Employees: 35,000
Revenues: $4.18 billion (2003)
NAIC: 622110 General Medical and Surgical Hospitals; 622310 Specialty General Medical and Surgical Hospitals; 623110 Nursing Care Facilities

The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), a public-benefit corporation, is the largest urban health-care agency in the United States. It consists of acute-care hospitals, long-term-care facilities, diagnostic and treatment centers, community health clinics, certified home healthcare agencies, and its own managed-care health-maintenance plan. The HHC, frequently financially beleaguered and often the focus of political contention and pressures, is a behemoth whose facilities serve over 1.3 million people a year—one in six New Yorkers—and account for more than one-third of all emergency-room and hospital-based clinic visits in the city.

1. Introduction
2. Origins in the 18th Century
3. Other Municipal Hospitals Before 1970
4. The HHC: 1970–2002
5. Principal Divisions
6. Principal Competitors
7. Further Reading
8. Copyright Page
9. About Page