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Kings County Hospital was born of necessity, dedicated to caring for the underprivileged of Brooklyn. In 1824, New York State established a law requiring several counties, including the County of Kings (Brooklyn), to purchase lands to be used exclusively to house the poor, deferring all potential real estate taxes which could be levied on the land.
Flatbush General Hospital [1] was a private "operated for profit" hospital [2] [3] When the 719 Linden Boulevard (corner East 49th Street) [ 3 ] facility closed, their medical records were transferred to Mount Sinai Brooklyn , a nearby hospital.
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center was a 303-bed full-service community teaching hospital with an estimated 2,100 full-time employees, located in the neighborhood of East Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York.
The Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine published a 2011 study analyzing food served at more than 110 hospitals in all 50 states and determined that many hospitals were serving foods ...
Interfaith Medical Center, the 1982-formed result of Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, initially the larger of the pair, reducing its number of beds per a state directive, and merging with St. John's Episcopal Hospital of Brooklyn. Both sites remained open, [85] until the combined Interfaith closed and both sites became apartments.
From 1946 to 1981, Koop was the surgeon-in-chief at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). [10] Koop was able to establish the nation's first neonatal surgical intensive care unit there in 1956. [11] He helped establish the biliary atresia program at CHOP when Japanese surgeon Morio Kasai came to work with him in the 1970s. He also ...
Image credits: Neil Cairns Not all food served at medical institutions is good, even though that might seem incredibly contradictory. Studies have found that hospital malnutrition affects around ...
Prospect Lefferts Gardens is a residential neighborhood in the Flatbush area of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The community is bounded by Empire Boulevard (formerly Malbone Street) to the north, Clarkson Avenue to the south, New York Avenue to the east, and Ocean Avenue/Prospect Park to the west. [3]