CM Narcisse on H&H headcount changes and residency expansion
Narcisse asks about nurse and physician headcount changes. Katz confirms 21 physician positions moved to affiliate payroll, not eliminated. Registered nurses increased by 223 across acute care hospitals. New residencies include psychiatry at Kings County and family practice at Metropolitan.
Headcount changes.
The number of licensed private nurses at H&H has continued to decrease since the first quarter of fiscal 2025
from 3.53 to now 3.36 in the third quarter of fiscal 2026.
I'm pleased, doctor, to see H&H is working on reducing its reliance on private nurses.
However, the number of physicians continued to decrease from 199 in Q4 of the fiscal 2025 to 178 in Q3 of fiscal 2025.
Have these 21 positions been moved to an affiliated payroll or were they simply eliminated?
You have it right.
They moved to an affiliate payroll.
So the physicians were not eliminated.
It's just a better way for them and us for us to employ them.
Okay.
So, and the...
The registered nurse, let me go to that one.
The registered nurse headcount increased by 223 in Q3 of fiscal 2026 compared to Q4 of fiscal 2025.
Which H&H locations are the newly hired nurses staff at?
So it's throughout the acute care hospitals.
Throughout.
Yes.
Is there any plan to increase the number of residents going forward?
Yes, we're actually increasing the number.
We've opened up an additional psychiatry residency at Kings County.
We're going to open a family practice residency at Metropolitan.
And we're looking right now at growing some of the other residencies as well.
Very good.
Thank you.