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Council Member Keith Powers introduces Dr. Patricia Marthone for reappointment to NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation
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Council Member Keith Powers introduces Dr. Patricia Marthone for reappointment to the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation board. He provides background information on the Health and Hospitals Corporation, its purpose, and the structure of its board of directors.
- Dr. Marthone was first designated by the council in 2021 and is now up for reappointment to serve until 03/20/2028.
- The NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) is described as a public benefit corporation focused on providing high-quality healthcare, particularly to those who can least afford it.
- The HHC board consists of 16 members, including ex officio members and 10 mayoral appointees, five of whom are designated by the city council.
Keith Powers
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Our next public hearing for today will be on the designation by the council of part Patricia Marthone for reappointment by the mayor to Health and Hospitals Corporation.
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You may join us up here on the dais.
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Marthone the right pronunciation?
Dr. Patricia Marthone
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Yes.
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Marthone.
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Yes.
Keith Powers
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Marthone.
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She was first designated well, first of welcome.
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Congratulations.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
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Thank
Keith Powers
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you.
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Miss Marthone, is that right?
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Yeah.
Dr. Patricia Marthone
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It's actually doctor Marthone.
Keith Powers
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Oh, doctor.
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I'm sorry.
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Doctor.
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Sorry.
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Apologies.
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Doctor Marthone.
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Congratulations.
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Thank you.
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Doctor Marthone was first designated by the council in 2021 to serve the remainder of a five year term that expired on 03/20/2023.
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She's been serving in holdover capacity since then.
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If designated by the council and reappointed by the mayor, she will serve the remainder of a five year term to expire on 03/20/2028.
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The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation commonly known as HHC or H and H was constituted pursuant to chapter ten sixteen of the laws of 1969 as a public benefit corporation whose purpose 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, extend equally to all served comprehensive health services of the highest quality in an atmosphere of human care and respect, promote and protect as both innovator and advocate the health, welfare, and safety of the people of the state of New York and the City Of New York, and join with other health workers and communities in a partnership to promote and protect health in its full sense, the total physical, mental and social well-being of the people.
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As provided by law, a board of directors consisting of 16 members administers HHC.
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The law establishing HHC provides that of the 16 members, the following officials or their successors shall be ex officio members, the administrator of the Health Services Administration, the Commissioner of Health, the Commissioner of Mental Health, Mental I'm sorry, mental administrator of the administrator of the Human Resource Administration, the deputy mayor and city administrator.
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Ten additional directors are appointed by the mayor, five of whom are designated by the city council.
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The president of AJC serves as the sixteenth director.
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Term of director other than those serving ex officio at the pleasure of the board is for five years.
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Mayors should fill any vacancy which may occur by the reason of death, resignation, or otherwise in a manner consistent with the original appointment.
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Directors do not receive compensation for their services but are reimbursed for actual necessary expenses occurred by them in the performance of their official duties.
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I wanna welcome Doctor.
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Marthone.