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Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is a 350-bed [1] teaching hospital located in the Wyckoff Heights section of Bushwick, Brooklyn in New York City.The hospital is an academic affiliate of the NewYork-Presbyterian's Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, the New York Medical College and New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Renamed Wyckoff Heights Hospital because of anti-German sentiment after World War 1, then renamed Wyckoff Heights Medical Center. The address has changed because of additional buildings, but it is still on the original block. [45] [46] [47]
Wyckoff Heights is home to the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center at Wyckoff Avenue and Stockholm Street (originally the German Hospital of Brooklyn, renamed in 1918), and the former Wyckoff Heights Presbyterian Church at Harman Street and St. Nicholas Avenue (founded in 1895 [19] and rebuilt after a 1928 fire, [20] now the Ridgewood Pentecostal ...
St. Vincent's was the last Catholic general hospital in New York City. The St. Vincent de Paul stained glass window from the hospital was donated to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey in honor of its legacy of charity. It is on display in the main lobby of the medical center. [6] The building was demolished by early 2013.
125 Worth Street, headquarters of HHC and of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Department of Sanitation. NYC Health + Hospitals, officially the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), operates the public hospitals and clinics in New York City as a public benefit corporation.
Jackson Heights Hospital was a "private, nonprofit hospital" that was operated by MediSys Health Network, [3] functioning as a subsidiary of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, in the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn. [2] A Junior High School, I.S. 230, was built on the hospital's site two years after the hospital closed and was torn down.
Brookdale is one of Brooklyn's largest voluntary nonprofit teaching hospitals, a regional tertiary care center, and is a level II trauma center.It provides 24-hour emergency services and long-term specialty care, has outpatient programs, and is one of 14 New York State DOH designated Stroke Centers in Brooklyn. [6]
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.