The number of uninsured New Yorkers who sought healthcare services at HHC in 2009 increased for the third year in a row, along with state funding cuts.

More than one in three Americans have one or more types of heart disease. As one Harlem Hospital patient learned, the severity and progression of existing heart disease can be reduced with good medical care and by controlling risk factors.

Woodhull Hospital doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers slept in the yard of a radio station and set up a medical clinic in the parking lot of a church to treat earthquake victims in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

As the liaison between Lincoln Hospital clinical staff and patients and family, Elsie Lecour is the bridge that keeps the communication flowing and the friend who holds your hand when you're scared.