Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park is on track to become part of the city's public hospital system by April 1, even as an ongoing lawsuit aims to stop the city takeover, according to the head of NYC Health and Hospitals. The top priority once the merger is complete will be renovating Maimonides' bustling maternity ward and getting the financially struggling medical center on a better footing, Dr. Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals, told City Council members at a hearing on the merger Monday. Katz also outlined other potential benefits of the deal for patients — including an updated medical records system and more funding for support staff — and responded to concerns some in the Orthodox Jewish community have raised in recent months that a city takeover of Maimonides would erode the hundred-year-old hospital's cultural accommodation.
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