Patient Care
Downstate's University Hospital of Brooklyn (UHB) offers comprehensive, advanced medical care throughout Brooklyn. It includes two full-service, comprehensive hospital sites (UHB at Central Brooklyn and UHB at Long Island College Hospital) plus a free-standing Urgent Care and Ambulatory Surgery Center in Bay Ridge and nine ambulatory satellite sites. UHB is licensed for 882 beds and annually provides care to over 300,000 patients. In 2012, Consumer Reports ranked University Hospital as the safest hospital in Brooklyn.
University Hospital of Brooklyn at Central Brooklyn http://www.downstate.edu/health-care.html is an 8-story facility with 8 intensive care and step-down units, 12 operating rooms, an adult and pediatric ER, diagnostic and ambulatory surgery facility, and 75 outpatient clinics. The flagship location for UHB, Central Brooklyn includes three community-based health centers in the neighborhoods of East New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Midwood, plus a freestanding Dialysis Center.
Specialized services
- Comprehensive cardiovascular services, including 24/7 angioplasty services and heart surgery;
- Comprehensive neurological services, including neurosurgery, diagnosis and treatment for stroke, epilepsy, sleep disorders, and Alzheimer’s disease;
- Adult/pediatric emergency services: the ER receives more than 68,906 patient visits a year ;
- Kidney transplantation and dialysis – the only transplant and pediatric dialysis centers in Brooklyn.
- Sports medicine;
- HIV/AIDS treatment and support services — Downstate is a designated AIDS treatment center;
- Maternal and infant health—Downstate is a designated Regional Perinatal Center.
University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital (UHB at LICH) http://www.downstate.edu/lich/ is located in Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill. LICH merged with Downstate in the Spring of 2011.
Specialized services
- Othmer Cancer Center
- Comprehensive Stroke Center
- Pediatric and obstetric services
- Ambulance service that is part of the NYC 911 emergency dispatch system
SUNY Downstate at Bay Ridge http://www.downstate.edu/bayridge/ serves the communities of Bay Ridge/Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, and Sunset Park. It features a walk-in Urgent Care Center, Ambulatory Surgery Center, Advanced Endoscopy Center, and Laser Vision Correction Center. It has onsite laboratory and radiology diagnostic facilities and medical offices for doctors in many clinical specialties.
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