NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln

The Peer Academy trains community members with lived experience with substance use or mental health conditions to become certified peer counselors who engage and support health system patients

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, Elmhurst, Lincoln, and Woodhull were named to the list

In six months with the Lifestyle Medicine Program, patient Samuel Rios improved his A1C levels from 11.3% to 5.7% while coming off of insulin; patient Armando Perez Solis improved his A1C levels from 9.4% to 6.0%, putting his diabetes into remission; and patient Davi Baez improved her A1C levels from 11.2% to 8.5% despite being on medication that increased her blood sugar

Nurses with doctoral degrees incorporate their years of education and bedside practice to advance the field of nursing both clinically and operationally

Lincoln Hospital is a Level 1 Trauma Center and has the busiest emergency department in New York City