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As one of the largest medical facilities of NYC, Jacobi houses the Bronx's only burn unit and Level I trauma center. [1] The hospital also houses a Level III neonatal intensive care unit and FDNY EMS Station 20 (formerly NYC*EMS Station 23). Jacobi had over 320,000 clinical visits and over 100,000 emergency department visits in 2016.
Jacobi Medical Center, 1400 Pelham Parkway South, the Bronx. Named after Abraham Jacobi and opened on July 1, 1955 as part of Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. [25] [26] [27] James J. Peters VA Medical Center, 130 West Kingsbridge Road, the Bronx. Opened as United States Veterans' Hospital no. 81 on April 15, 1922.
[7] [8] A $12.5 million a year contract with nearby Montefiore Medical Center to provide some medical services was in place at the time. [9] [8] [10] In 1977 the hospital began a birth center program that includes midwives. [11] [12] The birth center was renovated in 2013 and re-opened in 2014. [13]
The crazed gunman who shot up the emergency room at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx two years ago — almost hitting a mom holding a baby — has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Einstein offers joint residency programs between Montefiore Medical Center and Jacobi Medical Center in Internal medicine, child neurology, dermatology, emergency medicine, general surgery, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, rehabilitation medicine, urology, and vascular ...
A 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m 2) Behavioral Health Center was added in 2008. [citation needed] In 2003, the US Army established a training program at the hospital called the Academy of Advanced Combat Medicine to train reservists in an emergency department that has received 600 cases per year of gunshot and stabbing victims. [10]
While CHAM does have a pediatric emergency department, they do not have a pediatric trauma center and sends all pediatric trauma cases to the nearby Jacobi Medical Center's level II pediatric trauma center. [8] The Children's Hospital at Montefiore is one of the largest providers of pediatric health services in New York state.
As the busiest single site Emergency Department in New York City, Lincoln Hospital is an Adult Level I Trauma Center [10] and a Pediatric Level II Trauma Center. The New York State Department of Health selected Lincoln as the first hospital in the South Bronx to receive designation as an official Stroke Center. [1] The medical center also ...