Mayor Adams, NYC Health + Hospitals President and CEO Dr. Katz Announce Merger Between NYC Health + Hospitals and Maimonides Health Moves Forward

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams, NYC Health + Hospitals President and CEO Dr. Mitchell Katz, and Maimonides Health Chief Executive Officer Ken Gibbs announced that NYC Health + Hospitals will move forward with a partnership that will allow Maimonides Health to become a part of the city’s health care system, pending final legal and regulatory approval. Maimonides Health is a Brooklyn health care system with three hospitals and more than 80 community-based sites. By joining the public health care system, care provided by Maimonides facilities will be reimbursed at a higher rate by Medicaid, bolstering its financial position. The merger also allows Maimonides to adopt Epic, the state-of-the-art electronic health record platform, which will allow it to improve care coordination and its ability to collect revenue. Maimonides patients will be able to access their health records online and contact their care team digitally through the portal. Patient care will continue uninterrupted during the transition. The partnership is supported by $2.2 billion over five years from New York state to protect safety net health care in Brooklyn.

“By bringing two storied health care systems together under one umbrella, we will ensure that Brooklynites, and all New Yorkers, can continue to receive the high-quality care that they deserve,” said Mayor Adams. “NYC Health + Hospitals is the envy of cities everywhere, and New Yorkers trust the care they receive at its 11 hospitals and many other patient care sites. This effort preserves and strengthens care in my home borough of Brooklyn, and will be great for the thousands of patients who use Maimonides every day. I thank Governor Hochul, Dr. Katz, and Maimonides for joining in this shared vision to serve all patients and deliver the trusted care they deserve.”

“We are proud to be part of the solution that preserves this cherished Brooklyn community hospital and welcomes it as an affiliate of our own public network of hospitals,” said First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro. “This is an historic occasion and a ‘win-win’ scenario for all.”

“This is an exciting opportunity for NYC Health + Hospitals and Maimonides, two institutions with their own respected history and traditions, but both committed to providing high-quality care for all New Yorkers,” said NYC Health + Hospitals President and CEO Katz, MD. “All of our 11 hospitals have their own identity and culture, and Maimonides will retain its unique character and commitment to the communities it serves. As we move forward, we will work with its amazing, dedicated clinicians and staff to ensure a smooth transition for everyone, especially its patients. We are deeply grateful to Governor Hochul for her support to ensure that Brooklynites continue to receive health care from the providers they know and trust.”

“Joining NYC Health + Hospitals will allow Maimonides to build on our history of providing outstanding specialty care to the communities we have proudly served for decades,” said Maimonides Health President and CEO Ken Gibbs. “We are grateful to have a partner who shares our commitment to working with communities to meet their needs, and we are grateful to Mayor Adams, Governor Hochul, and Dr. Katz for giving us this unique opportunity to expand access to our care across Brooklyn.”

NYC Health + Hospitals, Maimonides Partnership

Governor Hochul announced the grant on October 16, 2025. The Health Care Safety Net Transformation Program encourages partnerships with safety-net institutions by providing strategic capital and operating support, in addition to required regulatory flexibility, to improve the resilience and sustainability of safety-net hospitals and to expand access to high-quality care. On November 20, 2025, NYC Health + Hospitals’ Board of Directors voted unanimously to pursue a partnership.

Today’s announcement also reflects the dramatically improved financial position of NYC Health + Hospitals in recent years. Under Dr. Katz, president and CEO since September 2017, NYC Health + Hospitals has undergone several changes to improve its finances:

• NYC Health + Hospitals consolidated all of its electronic health records across the system, allowing care teams to more easily refer patients across different sites and improving data collection for the system. The health system adopted Epic as its electronic health record, and has become recognized by the platform for several years running for adopting best practices to streamline care coordination and improve the patient experience.
• NYC Health + Hospitals expanded its team of financial counselors, who help patients enroll in health insurance if they are eligible. It also improved the patient workflow to ensure that all patients were asked for their health insurance information and connected to a financial counselor if they did not have health insurance.

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, NYC Health + Hospitals’ direct patient care revenue surpassed $5.7 billion — an increase of over $2.5 billion from FY 2019. The health care system now has patients in primary care, with 459,000 in FY 2025 — an increase of approximately 43,000 patients from FY 2018.

While there are still a number of other legal and regulatory steps that must be advanced, the partnership is expected to be complete before April 1, 2026. At that point, Maimonides will be part of the NYC Health + Hospitals system.

Delivering Results for New Yorkers

Today’s announcement further builds on the work the Adams administration has done to keep New Yorkers healthy. Other achievements include:

• Launching HealthyNYC, a signature initiative to increase New Yorkers’ life expectancy to 83 years by 2030, which has already exceeded its goal.
• Announcing a major evolution of Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division (B-HEARD) — the city’s health-led response to 911 mental health calls — that will shift the focus even further towards a health-first response by streamlining management to be fully operated and managed by NYC Health + Hospitals in the coming months.
• Launching Bridge to Home, a new, innovative support model designed to help patients living with severe mental illness who are ready to be discharged from the hospital but do not have a place to go.
• Expanding the Lifestyle Medicine program  to six additional sites, making the program available citywide (the program first launched in 2019 with support of then-Borough President Adams). The program has provided over 10,000 group visits and served more than 1,300 patients in the past year.
• Launching NYC Baby Boxes to give over 7,000 families a year at four NYC Health + Hospital locations boxes that contain a collection of postpartum and newborn supplies, including diapers and wipes, clothing, games, and several resource guides on what to expect after giving birth.
• Filed multiple lawsuits against vaping and e-cigarette companies, and shut down over 1,600 illegal cannabis stores, seizing over $116 million in illegal products, much of which were being sold to children as part of “Operation Padlock to Protect.”
• Issued a landmark Health Commissioner’s Advisory identifying unfettered access to social media as a public health hazard and filed a lawsuit to hold the owners of five social media platforms accountable for their role in helping fuel the nationwide youth mental health crisis.
• Opening 16 school-based mental health clinics that bring mental health services to more than 6,000 students in New York City Public Schools across the Bronx and Central Brooklyn.
• Making plant-based meals the default choice for lunch and dinner at all 11 hospitals. The health system has served over 2 million plant-based meals since the program began in March 2022.
• Hiring over 3,400 nurses in 2024 alone, replacing many temporary nurses who had held those positions, saving more than $150 million in recruitment costs. Additionally, through its professional development and staff engagement initiatives, NYC Health + Hospitals improved its nurse turnover rate to just 7.3 percent in 2025, far below the national average of 16.4 percent — saving the health system more than $88 million in nurse turnover costs. As recently as 2019, the public hospital system’s staff nurse turnover rate was 46 percent.
• Launching “Housing for Health,” which has housed over 1,000 patients experiencing homelessness. As part of the Housing for Health initiative, in collaboration with the New York City Housing Preservation and Development, the health system opened the Woodhull Phase II apartment building, a $41.5 million 93-unit apartment building that contains both supportive housing and affordable housing. Additionally, the health system expanded its medical respite bed program, which offers patients experiencing homelessness a place to stay for up to 90 days after a major health event, in addition to expanded medical services that are not available in shelter, to serve an additional 100 patients a year.
• Responding to the international asylum seeker humanitarian crisis by opening the Asylum Arrival Center, which provided unified intake, medical, social, and reconnection services to more than 155,000 individuals. The health system also ran the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center program, which provided temporary shelter and wraparound services to more than 140,000 people, including over 40,000 children.
• Opening Extended Care Units at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County and Elmhurst, building on a successful program at Bellevue. The long stay units serve patients with severe and persistent mental illness and offer psychopharmacological treatment, rehabilitative activities, including music and art therapy, reading, and various exercises.
• Launching the Domestic Violence Shelter Mental Health initiative alongside the New York City Department of Social Services, the Mayor’s Office to End Gender-Based Violence, and the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health. The program is now available at 41 domestic violence shelters, where NYC Health + Hospitals’ staff have conducted over 5,600 behavioral health appointments and served over 700 patients.
• Growing NYC Care to over 140,000 active members and expanding its coverage to include durable medical equipment, such as wheelchairs, rolling walkers, and CPAP machines. 
• Launching telehealth abortion care . In its first year, the service provided over 2,700 virtual visits, mailed over 800 medication abortion kits, and referred an additional 1,050 patients for in-person care.
• Distributing over 1,000 smartphones to patients leaving Rikers Island, enabling them to remain engaged in health care and mental health treatment, connect with job and housing resources, and stay connected to loved ones upon returning to their communities.

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