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Hospital scrubs are a common sight in the leafy Norwood section of the Bronx, where employees, patients and visitors flowed in and out of the buildings on Montefiore Medical Center’s main campus on East 210th Street on a recent morning.
Montefiore is both a major health care provider in the Bronx, where residents suffer from high rates of chronic illnesses like diabetes, and one of the borough’s largest employers — a dual role that has become increasingly common in communities across the country. The array of other hospitals, nursing homes and clinics across the borough, including the city-run medical centers Lincoln and Jacobi, helps make health care a key piece of the Bronx’s economy…