Reforms to improve mental health services include new safety and security measures, improvements in the psych ER and a new patient-centered, rehabilitation model of care.

The injection of $17 billion into health information technology that is part of President Obama's federal stimulus bill will bring as much as $121 million to help upgrade HHC's already advanced electronic health records system.

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. But a simple colonoscopy can save lives, according to Dr. Jay Charles Cowan, gastroenterologist at Harlem Hospital Center.

After John Brown got the diagnosis of diabetes, he wrestled with the new lifestyle the disease imposed on him: keeping track of his medicine, checking his blood sugar level and blood pressure, and writing everything down. Then Brown, of Mott Haven in the Bronx, joined HHC's House Calls program.