Always in the front lines of healthcare, HHC emergency departments mobilized quickly to respond to a significant increase in patient visits, which, at peak, added an additional 1,000 patients to EDs during one 24-hour period.

Rather than back massages and cucumber facials, Metropolitan Hospital pampers patients with a special Saturday health spa to ease getting mammograms and other preventive health tests.

An unusual career choice allows Richard Jennings, Director of the Gouverneur-Bellevue Midwifery Practice, reap the rewards of being surrounded by triumphant mothers every day.