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New York Hospital Queens |
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56-45 Main Street |
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Flushing |
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New York |
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USA |
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11355. |
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718 670 2000 |
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Specialization Of New York Hospital Queens
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Obestetrician/Gynecologist |
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About New York Hospital Queens
Queens is an amazing place – it represents the heart of New York City. Queens is constantly growing and evolving. Our work at New York Hospital Queens is advancing right along with it. A constant focus on progress and excellence has paid off, and today, this hospital is right at the heart of healthcare in this vital and vibrant borough.
Today, if there is one message that we want every member of the community to hear, it is that there is no reason to leave this borough for top-notch care. Excellence is right here.
Every year, more and more Queens residents choose NYHQ for medical expertise they can trust. In fact, patients from other areas of this country, and even from other countries, come to NYHQ to benefit from our brand of care. We are proud to report that our growing reputation, results, and expanding clinical programs attract and retain leading physicians, specialists, and nurses – they choose to practice right here.
This special community teaching hospital has certainly evolved as an excellent medical center. From technology so new it’s not even available in most communities, to specialized services for people with rare or difficult to treat conditions, we bring the newest, the latest, the best, to the people of Queens. Today, if you need treatment for lung cancer, if you are facing a complicated pregnancy, if you are deciding where to have a hip replacement, if you want to investigate obesity surgery, or if you need help with a sleep disorder…you have access to excellent care near your neighborhood, in your borough. It’s all right here.
We are proud that our hospital and its dedicated staff bring the expertise and service that the people of Queens need and deserve. We think that a special factor in this success is that two-thirds of our hospital employees live in the borough. They are trained to provide world-class medical care, and they never forget that they are providing that care to people who may be a neighbor, the teacher of their child, or the owner of their favorite restaurant. This true relationship with the community creates a special environment. Here, patients and their loved ones receive a high level of personalized service, service that helps them come through an illness or a procedure satisfied, and with their health, as well as their dignity, intact.
Very soon, this institution will take another significant step that will further bring the cutting edge of medicine to our community. Despite numerous challenges presented by the current economic climate, as well as from the stress placed on the Queens healthcare system from the closing of several other institutions, we remain on track for completion of a new 80-bed wing in 2010. You will read more about this spectacular new addition to our facility within this report. We invite the entire community to take a tour – before and after it opens.
The people we care for each day are at the heart of Queens, and we are honored to serve them right here, at the heart of healthcare in Queens. We hope that you enjoy this report and share it with a colleague or neighbor, and we welcome your thoughts about how we can best continue to serve this community.
Our Mission
"To be the premier healthcare institution serving our greater community by providing excellence in clinical care and patient safety, education, clinical research, and service."
Our Values:
Caring and Compassion
Commitment
Caution
Candor
Courage
Competence
Continuous Learning
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History Of New York Hospital Queens
** Our History **
On the Move from the Beginning...
The earliest roots of the hospital go back to nineteenth century Manhattan. Around that time, the medical community’s latest breakthrough was the discovery of the x-ray. The hospital started out in 1892 as a haven for unmarried mothers in a humble house on East 123rd Street in Manhattan. It was named the Rescue Home for Women and was operated by the Salvation Army. The facility was one of the Salvation Army’s first installations in the United States.
During World War I, the facility opened a free medical service for the dependants of enlisted men. With the recession of the war, the name of the facility was changed to become Booth Memorial Hospital. It relocated twice in Manhattan before landing permanently in Flushing, Queens. For nearly 60 years, the facility operated on East 15th Street. The idea to move to Queens was spurred by the baby booming, post-WWII 1950s, when the Salvation Army noticed a shortage of local general hospital facilities in the vast farmland communities located to the east of the East River: Queens.
Bringing Queens Trusted Expertise and Much-Deserved Services
Even as Booth Memorial Hospital prospered in Manhattan throughout the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, more change was on the horizon. By the 1950s, the New York metropolitan area had transformed. In particular, there was a desperate need for medical services to support the rapidly growing population in Queens. With that being the case, the Salvation Army made the bold choice of uprooting from Manhattan and building a modern medical facility on an empty parcel of overgrown brush in Flushing, Queens.
That facility was built on the site where the hospital resides to this day. The hospital opened to great fanfare on February 14,1957, with 210 beds and 45 bassinets. In addition, a 35-bed unit called the Williams Residence was designed for elderly patients. Another wing housed the Salvation Army’s program for unmarried mothers. It was called the Perkins Pavilion.
Change in Name and Sponsorship, Not in Spirit or Service
From the beginning, the Salvation Army instilled a great sense of service and patient-centered care at the hospital, a spirit that lives on in the institution to this day. By the early 1990s, the Salvation Army decided to discontinue its management of acute care hospitals across the United States to focus on other charitable endeavors.
In 1992, the hospital became an affiliate of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. The following year – after a long history as Booth Memorial in both Manhattan and Queens – the hospital was renamed The New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens. Several years later, while retaining this name legally, for ease of use it was shortened to New York Hospital Queens.
Our Role Today
In 1997, The New York Hospital and The Presbyterian Hospital merged, creating the New York Presbyterian Hospital Care Network. These entities became what are now known, respectively, as the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. The system is now one of the largest healthcare systems in the country. Today, New York Hospital Queens,with its own leadership and charter – and as a proudmember of the NewYork-Presbyterian HealthcareSystem and affiliate of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University – has grown to become a comprehensive and innovative institution. The hospital maintains specialty care centers and clinics throughout the borough of Queens and offers world-class health care services in almost every specialty area.
New York Hospital Queens has grown to become a 519-bed acute care hospital, that last year admitted more than 35,000 patients, had more than 139,000 outpatient visits, and treated 115,000 people through the emergency department. Over time, this hospital has dramatically expanded and refined the expertise it offers, but still retains its founder’s guiding principle of service.
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