Merger Between NYC Health + Hospitals and Maimonides Health Moves Forward
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
