BOROUGH PARK — EXECUTIVES AT MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER WANT TO MERGE IT with the city’s public health hospital system, but the trustees of the 80-year-old health system have sued to block a government takeover, reports the New York Post .

Originally founded in 1911, Maimonides Hospital is named after the 12th-century Jewish physician, scholar and philosopher Rabbi Moses (Moshe) ben Maimon. The medical center, serving a major Orthodox Jewish community, is also a safety-net hospital, and is heavily reliant on Medicaid and state subsidies.

Although the merger with NYC Health + Hospitals would inject $2.2 billion in state grant money into Maimonides Health, the trustees fear that the level and quality of care would decline severely. The trustees also assert that the sale to the city wo

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