25 Influential Black Women of 2009

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In The Name of Public Health

By the time Antonio D. Martin left Kings County Hospital Center as executive director to lead the restructuring of the $6.7 billion New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., no one called the hospital by its old nickname, “Killer County.” 
“Even police officers now say they want to be taken to Kings County when they are shot,” Martin once told The Network Journal.   .