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The article reports on the plan by Northwell Health's Lenox Hill hospital to build a 30-story tower on its campus that will nearly double the hospital's current size. Topics covered include the remarks made by Northwell's president and chief executive officer (CEO) Michael Dowling about efforts to raise money for the upgrade, a need for regulatory approvals from the state Department of Health and the uniform land-use review procedure in New York City.

The article reports the scheduled opening by specialty orthopedic hospital Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) of a clinic at 35 Hudson Yards in New York in 2019 to cater to the needs of workers and residents in the area. Also cited are the plan of Equinox to establish a hotel and office space in the area, the services to be offered by HSS like imaging and physical therapy services, as well as the comment of HSS' Louis Shapiro on the developments.

The article reports the claim by New York City (NYC) Health and Hospitals president and chief executive officer (CEO) Mitchell Katz that public hospitals should focus on billing to continue providing services to the people. Also cited are his other plans like eliminating consulting contracts and transferring administrative staff to vacant hospital spaces from rented office space, and the plan to file an arbitration against insurer UnitedHealthcare to recover 11.5 million dollars in claims.

The article discusses New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. chief executive officer (CEO) Mitchell Katz's plans to address the financial challenges of the public health system. Topics discussed include the aim to attract patients and increase utilization by investing in primary and specialty care and hiring several primary care clinicians, the dismissal of administrators in the central office of the system, and the plans to improve the system's coding and billing claims to improve revenue.

The article reports on the restructuring plan of Doctor Wayne Riley for the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York City. Topics discussed include plan of Governor Andrew Cuomo to remake Brooklyn's struggling community hospitals, award announced by Governor Cuomo to One Brooklyn Health System, a group of three Brooklyn hospitals that came together as part of Cuomo's Vital Brooklyn plan, and remarks from Stephen Berger, who chaired a 2011 group to redesign Brooklyn's health system.

The article reports on the 2 million U.S. dollar settlement forged by the Allure Group, a nursing home chain in Brooklyn, New York City, to end the state's investigation into the closing and subsequent sale of Rivington House and the closing of CABS Nursing Home by Allure. Topics covered include the amount that Allure will pay in fines and the amount it will contribute to health care nonprofits under the settlement, and Allure's acquisition of Greater Harlem Nursing Home.

The article reports on the move by some landlords in New York City to target walk-in health clinics as their tenants in 2017. The landlords have made the move in response to the sluggish retail market and high vacancies of retail spaces. Walk-in health clinic operator CityMD has signed leases at six former stores of bankrupt retailer Payless ShoeSource in the city.

The article reports on the opening by the Actors Fund, a national social services agency dedicated to helping performing artists and entertainment industry employees, of a new clinic in Times Square, New York on March 6, 2017 in partnership with Mount Sinai Doctors.

This article reports on the efforts of New York medical schools and residency programs to support their foreign-born students, trainees and faculty affected by the executive order of U.S. President Donald Trump that limits travel to the U.S. from seven Muslim countries.

The article focuses on the Bronx Union Community Health Center (UCHC) director for adolescent medicine Dr. Daniel Stephens improving the health of New York City teenagers. Topics covered include state grant funding for UCHC that has been ranked last in the 62-county measure of health outcomes based on socioeconomic factors by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Also mentioned is Stephens seeing patients five days a week while supporting programs at the Teen Health Center.

This section offers New York City (NYC) healthcare industry news briefs as of February 29, 2016. Topics covered include price estimates received by Pioneer Institute researchers who secretly surveyed several area hospitals for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the impact of the Chapter 7 bankruptcy filed by the Brooklyn ambulance company Transcare on the city's emergency-response system, and the expected completion of NYC Health + Hospitals' storm preparedness projects in 2022.

The article reports that the Mount Sinai Hospital has hired sleep doctors who left New York University Langone Sleep Disorders Center (SDC) as part of its plan to expand its sleep-medicine (SM) program to its other locations across New York City (NYC). Topics covered include the closure of the SDC after the doctors' departure, the acquisition of the SM Associates of NYC, and the growth potential of the SM business for hospitals.

The article talks about major New York health plan HIP, a unit of health maintenance organization (HMO) EmblemHealth, and its plan to cease working with independent physicians in favor of larger groups like independent practice associations.

The article focuses on the New York City-based start-up insurer Oscar Health Insurance that achieved $1.5 billion growth despite having 40,000 members. It states that they raised $320 million from investors in April 2015. It mentions that the insurer is project to generate $200 million in revenue in 2015 and gain profitability by end of 2016.

The article features Edith W. Cooper, investment bank Goldman Sachs' executive vice president and global head of human capital management and one of "Crain's New York Business" magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in New York, and mentions her personnel recruitment and management responsibilities.

The article reports that urgent care center operator Cure Urgent Care has opened its third center on the Upper East Side of New York City as part of a joint venture with Mount Sinai Health System.

The article reports on the efforts of the coalition Campaign for a Healthy Bronx to improve public health in New York City's Bronx borough following a 2015 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation showing that the borough ranked last among the state's counties for the sixth straight year.