REMARKS
Overview of Health and Hospitals Corporation responsibilities
1:06:23
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Council Member Keith Powers provides an overview of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), explaining its purpose and responsibilities. The HHC was established as a public benefit corporation in 1969.
- HHC's main purpose is to provide high-quality, comprehensive care, particularly for those who can least afford such services
- It aims to extend equal health services to all in an atmosphere of human care and respect
- The corporation also acts as an innovator and advocate for public health in New York City and State
Keith Powers
1:06:23
Before we hear from the candidates, I'll review the responsibilities of the corporation.
1:06:28
New York City Health And Hospitals Corporation, commonly known as the HHC, was constituted pursuant to chapter 1016 of the laws of 1969 as a public benefit core migration whose purposes are to provide and deliver high quality, dignified, and comprehensive care and treatment for the ill and infirm both physical and mental particularly to those who can at least afford such services to extend equally to all serve to extend equally to all serve comprehensive health services, the highest quality in an atmosphere fear of human care and respect and to protect and pro to promote and protect as both innovator and advocate to health welfare and safety of the people of the state of New York and in the City of New York.
1:07:07
And to join with other health workers and communities in partnership to promote and protect health in its fullest sense that total physical, mental, and social well-being of the people.