New York Downtown Hospital is a community teaching hospital principally serving the people who live or work in Lower Manhattan.

New York Downtown Hospital offers services and technology appropriate to a community hospital with emphasis on outreach and ambulatory services. New York Downtown Hospital achieves access to specialized services for its patients and community through formal affiliation with an academic medical center.

As a teaching hospital, New York Downtown Hospital will conduct graduate and/or undergraduate educational programs and provide clinical experience for physicians, nurses and other health professionals.

As a community hospital, New York Downtown Hospital will offer to its patients, medical staff and employees a caring environment, which emphasizes the value of patient dignity and employee and professional pride.

The programs and services of New York Downtown Hospital will, within the limits of its resources, respond to the needs of its community.