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H+H CEO: Must Address Disparity Of Virus's Toll in Poorer Neighborhoods

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 4/30/21

The coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 32,000 city residents inspired life-saving innovations while also exposing health-care disparities that left some neighborhoods more at the mercy of the disease, according to Dr. Mitchell Katz, the CEO of New York City Health + Hospitals.

The nation's largest municipal health-care system, includes 11 hospitals and saw some of the highest patient death counts. Thousands of H+H workers were sidelined by the deadly virus, with 53 dying from it.

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