{"id":84112,"date":"2025-12-29T23:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84112\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:34:08","slug":"nyc-mayor-elect-mamdani-keeps-mitch-katz-as-public-hospital-boss-among-other-adams-holdovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84112\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani keeps Mitch Katz as public hospital boss among other Adams holdovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani tapped several government veterans for key roles in his administration Monday, including Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/leader\/dr-mitchell-katz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch Katz<\/a>, who will remain CEO of New York City\u2019s public hospital system.<\/p>\n<p>Katz was first picked as the Health + Hospitals\u00a0system\u2019s top executive in 2017 by then-Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_de_Blasio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill de Blasio<\/a>. Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams then retained Katz for the post upon his inauguration in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release Monday morning, Mamdani said he\u2019s also retaining Katz, citing his work on a number of issues, including spearheading H + H\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr.\u00a0Katz\u00a0led the financial turnaround of NYC H+H, expanded access to more New Yorkers, and steered the nation\u2019s largest municipal health system through COVID-19,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Mamdani said he\u2019s retaining Dr. Jason Graham as the city\u2019s medical examiner, Michael Garner as City Hall\u2019s chief business diversity officer and Mir Bashar as the chief administrative officer in the mayor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Graham is another longtime government hand who first started serving as the city\u2019s medical examiner on an acting basis in 2013. Bashar has been in City Hall posts since the de Blasio administration, too.<\/p>\n<p>Garner, by contrast, first entered municipal government service under Adams, who appointed him as City Hall\u2019s chief business diversity officer in 2023. Garner is seen as close to Adams, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2024\/09\/23\/phil-banks-michael-garner-no-biid-contracts-dcas-mwbe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">worked with him on diversity efforts<\/a> since the outgoing mayor\u2019s days in the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese reappointments reflect my commitment to steady, experienced leadership that delivers real results for New Yorkers,\u201d Mamdani said of his latest appointments.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani, who\u2019s being sworn in as the city\u2019s next mayor Thursday, had yet to make a number of other top appointments as of late Monday, including announcing a pick for schools chancellor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani tapped several government veterans for key roles in his administration Monday, including Dr. Mitch Katz,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[302,41153,41152,41151,41150,9,24,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-84112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-city-hall","9":"tag-health-hospitals","10":"tag-jason-graham","11":"tag-michael-garner","12":"tag-mitch-katz","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}