Maimonides Health, which is Brooklyn, New York-based, is going ahead and merging along with the public health system of New York, NYC Health + Hospitals, the organizations confirmed on December 29, 2025.
Apparently, the merger is pending final legal as well as regulatory approval; however, it is anticipated to get finalized by April 2026, city officials cited.
The partnership has the support of $2.2 billion over the next five years from New York State in order to protect safety net healthcare within Brooklyn, the officials said.
Notably, Maimonides Health is a Brooklyn healthcare system having three hospitals and over 80 community-based sites. Through partnering with the city, Maimonides is going to be reimbursed at a much higher rate by Medicaid, hence bolstering its financial health and position, the health system executives went on to say in a press release.
The merger also enables Maimonides to embrace a new Epic electronic health record – EHR platform. Health system executives went on to say that the move to Epic is going to help enhance care coordination along with the ability of the organization to collect revenue. Maimonides patients are going to be able to get access to their health records online and also have an option to contact their care team digitally by way of the portal.
According to Eric Adams, New York City Mayor, through bringing two storied health care systems together in one umbrella, they will make sure that Brooklynites, as well as all New Yorkers, can continue to get the high-quality care that they actually deserve. It is worth noting that NYC Health + Hospitals is actually the envy of cities everywhere, and New Yorkers actually trust the care they get at its 11 hospitals as well as many other patient care sites.
This sort of effort preserves and also strengthens the care in his home borough of Brooklyn and is indeed going to be great for the thousands of patients who make use of Maimonides every day added Adams.
Mitchell Katz, M.D., President and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, said that this is indeed quite an exciting opportunity for NYC Health + Hospitals along with Maimonides, two institutions having their own respected history as well as traditions and both committed to offering high-quality care for all the New Yorkers. Katz added that all their 11 hospitals have their own identity and culture, and Maimonides is going to retain its distinct character along with its commitment to all the communities it goes on to serve. As they move forward, they are going to work with its incredible, dedicated clinicians as well as staff in order to make sure of a smooth transition for everyone, specifically its patients.
Interestingly, Gov. Kathy Hochul went on to announce the $2.2 billion grant on October 16, 2025. The Health Care Safety Net Transformation Program motivates building partnerships with safety-net institutions through offering strategic capital as well as operating support, besides the required regulatory agility, in order to improve the resilience as well as sustainability of safety-net hospitals and to also expand the access to high-quality care.
Joining NYC Health + Hospitals is going to enable Maimonides to keep offering the necessary specialty care, as per Ken Gibbs, Maimonides Health President and CEO. He adds that they are grateful to have a partner who goes on to share their commitment to working along with communities in order to meet their requirements, and that they are grateful to Mayor Adams, Governor Hochul, and Dr. Katz for offering them this very distinct opportunity to go ahead and broaden their access to care throughout Brooklyn.
It is worth noting that NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal healthcare system in the country that serves over a million New Yorkers per year across more than 70 patient care locations throughout the five boroughs of the city. The health system’s network, when it comes to outpatient, neighborhood-based primary as well as specialty care centers, goes on to anchor care coordination along with the trauma centers, nursing homes along with post-acute care centers, home care agency, and MetroPlus health plan of the system. NYC Health + Hospitals apparently employs over 46,000 people.
NYC Health + Hospitals went on to note that the organization, under the leadership of Katz since September 2017, had gone through many changes in order to enhance its finances, including consolidating its EHRs throughout the system, which helps with better care coordination along with data collection, and also went on to expand its team of financial counselors, who enable the patients to enroll in health insurance if they are eligible, said the health system executives.
Notably, in fiscal 2025, the direct patient care revenue of NYC Health + Hospitals went on to surpass $5.7 billion, which was an increase of over $2.5 billion from fiscal 2019. The healthcare system now has its patients within primary care, with 459,000 in fiscal 2025, which was an increase of almost 43,000 patients from fiscal 2018.
