Health visionary Dr. Mitchell Katz tapped by de Blasio to save NYC’s public hospitals
From Brooklyn to LA and back to lead HHC
With cutbacks on the city’s public health care system looming, the highly-lauded head of Los Angeles’ public health system, Dr. Mitchell Katz, has been nominated by Mayor Bill De Blasio to run NYC Health + Hospitals (also known as Health and Hospitals Corp., or HHC).
As director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services for the past five years, Dr. Katz has been called a visionary, an innovator and a fundamentally decent man.
HHC operates the city’s 11 public hospitals, roughly 70 outpatient clinics and five nursing homes, along with diagnostic and treatment centers.