Harlem Hospital Center Medical Board v. Hoffman

OPINION OF THE COURT

Ross, J.

This appeal poses the question whether the Director of the New York State Office of Health Systems Management (OHSM), has the authority pursuant to the Public Health Law, to order the removal of an acting executive director of *273a hospital center which is operated by the Health and Hospitals Corporation of the City of New York. Special Term found that the State lacked this power and ordered the reinstatement of petitioner Albert Jackson. We disagree and now reverse that judgment.

In 1969, the New York State Legislature recognized that there were “inadequate general…