Public Hospital SystemsWith sixteen hospitals and almost 10,500 beds, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation(HHC) is the largest municipal hospital system in the United States. With forty seven hospitals and almost thirty three thousand beds, the Paris Hospital Corporation, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris(AP), is three times as large, the biggest municipal hospital system in France. This book compares these two vast systems. It analyzes staffing,