Opn. No.

Hon. John J. McLaughlin President New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation

Your counsel has asked whether the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) may establish a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary corporation.

The declaration of policy and statement of purposes by the Legislature in establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation noted that there were serious shortages of adequately trained and qualified personnel to provide quality health care and treatment and inadequate general and specialized health care facilities (Unconsolidated Laws, § 7382). These…