NYC Care: A Large Health Care Access Program for Uninsured New York City Residents.

Context: Millions of people living in the United States are excluded from health insurance due to income or immigration status. These 2 groups are more likely to lack access to health care or a regular source of care.

Program: NYC Health + Hospitals is addressing this need with NYC Care, a health care access program.

Advancing Lifestyle Medicine in New York City's Public Health Care System.

Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States, and much of this burden can be attributed to lifestyle and behavioral risk factors. Lifestyle medicine is an approach to preventing and treating lifestyle-related chronic disease using evidence-based lifestyle modification as a primary modality. NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal public health care system in the United States, is a national pioneer in incorporating lifestyle medicine systemwide.

Toward Better Understanding of Pediatric Feeding Disorder: A Proposed Framework for Patient Characterization.

To establish a foundation for methodologically sound research on the epidemiology, assessment, and treatment of pediatric feeding disorder (PFD), a 28-member multidisciplinary panel with equal representation from medicine, nutrition, feeding skill, and psychology from seven national feeding programs convened to develop a case report form (CRF). This process relied upon recent advances in defining PFD, a review of the extant literature, expert consensus regarding best practices, and review of current patient characterization templates at participating institutions. The resultant PFD CRF involves patient characterization in four domains (ie, medical, nutrition, feeding skill, and psychosocial) and identifies the primary features of a feeding disorder based on PFD diagnostic criteria.