The city's deputy mayor for health and human services will be leaving her post at the halt of September,Mayor de Blasio announced on Monday.
Lilliam Barrios-Paoli has accepted an appointment to serve as chairperson of the Board for the Health and Hospitals Corporation. The position is unpaid.
The mayor lauded Barrios-Paoli's work for the administration, citing the implementation of rental assistance programs for the homeless and an expansion of after school programs in the city.
The Health and Hospitals Corporation oversees the city's public hospitals and clinics, and which serve about 1.4 million patients.
De Blasio's choice to appoint Barrios-Paoli,who was born in Mexico to Cuban parents, was hailed by advocates who beget called for greater Latino representation in the mayor's office.
Source: wnyc.org