Coney Island Hospital

Description

From its beginnings in the late 19th century as a firstaid station for summer beach goers Coney Island Hospital has grown into a multisite community medical center serving southern Brooklyn

The healthcare needs of the community are as diverse as Coney Islands patient population and benefit from the hospitals patientcentered focus Coney Island has been recognized for its expertise in treating the high incidence of thyroid cancers among the Ukrainian and Russian survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident The hospital also has aggressively reached out to the Pakistani Bangladeshi and Indian communities with its Healthy Heart Program when it was found that these populations are four times as likely as Caucasians or other Asian populations to be diagnosed with early onset Coronary Artery Disease Coney Island Hospital was the first HHC facility to house a mosque and serve halal food

As part of its Wellness 2000 initiative Coney Island teams up with communitybased organizations and healthcare coalitions in quotwellness partnershipsquot to assess and improve the health status of shorefront residents For momstobe Coney Island now has a modern and cheerful birthing center It features new Labor and Delivery Suites outfitted with the latest medical technology to safeguard mother and baby during the birth process Coney Islands Womens Health Services have expanded to include a multidisciplinary comprehensive Osteoporosis Program that emphasizes prevention The Breast Health Center has dramatically improved the care given to women with breast diseases through the use of the latest stereotactic mammography and sonography equipment The Center has received praised for its use of breastsparing lumpectomy as the procedure of choice

Coney Islands highly respected Adolescent Medicine Program is dedicated to providing high quality integrated health care to young people between the ages of 12 and 21 Services include clinics to address such relevant issues as sexually transmitted diseases substance abuse counseling and weightnutritional problems

Coney Island also was selected as one of only two hospitals statewide to receive IPROs annual Quality Award for excellence in the care of patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction AMI heart failure and pneumonia IPRO is the health care quality review organization that oversees Medicaid and Medicare quality control throughout New York State