Affiliate Hospitals
Kings County Hospital | University Hospital of Brooklyn | Staten Island University Hospital
Brookdale University Hospital | VA Hospital Brooklyn
KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL is one of the most storied public hospitals in the country. While it has undergone many recent renovations (including a new inpatient tower and a new state-of-the-art emergency department), its halls hold the history of generations of immigrants to this country. The hospital serves as the main site for our residency program and is one of only three level-one adult trauma centers in the borough of Brooklyn and the only level one pediatric trauma center in Brooklyn. "The County" cares for a vast number of Brooklyn's 3.5 million inhabitants as the largest municipal hospital in New York City, and one of the largest general acute care hospitals in the nation. The campus is situated on 43 acres and contains 23 buildings. Along with its designation as a Trauma Center, it has 9 Intensive Care Units including a Pediatric ICU and a large Renal Dialysis Center. Kings County is a Stroke Center, a Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) Center of Excellence, and the only level one Pediatric Trauma Center in the borough of Brooklyn.
The Emergency Department census is over 125,000 visits per year, making it one of the busiest ED's in the country. The amount and variety of pathology is simply staggering and unparalleled. According to the CDC, Kings County has led the nation in the number of penetrating trauma in the last decade- a dubious honor, though an asset when viewed from the perspective of a resident training program.
The Adult ED has state-of-the-art patient care areas, thirteen fully-monitored critical care beds, twenty-five acute care beds, and a general med-surg ED area, as well as a fast-track area. There are five fully equipped resuscitation rooms with room for 2 critical patients in each room. In addition, there is a room dedicated to the care of asthma patients, dialysis bays, isolation rooms, and a complete radiology suite, including multi-detector spiral CT, MRI, ultrasound, and angiography.
The large Pediatric Emergency Department is integrated into the ED overall space but has a separate treatment area and waiting room. This large patient care space includes two trauma resuscitation areas, an asthma room, a surgical treatment room, and ten examination rooms.
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 UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BROOKLYN (UHB) is the principal teaching hospital of SUNY Downstate School of Medicine and the only major academic medical center in Brooklyn. It is located across the street from Kings County Hospital and shares many of the same faculty practices and training programs. The ED was greatly expanded and renovated in 2002 and currently contains 21 acute care beds, a two-bed critical care resuscitation room, a 6-bed pediatric emergency room and an urgent care area. The UHB ED currently sees just under 60,000 visits per year.
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 STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) is a 785-bed, tertiary care, medical facility caring for over 95,000 emergency department visits in two sites. The hospital operates state of the art cardiac, intensive care, burn, medical and surgical services as well as a broad range of both medical and surgical subspecialties. EM residents rotate through the North Site which has Level I Trauma Center designation, Stroke Center designation, 24-hour Cardiac Cath Lab, and is home to a 10-bed Regional Burn Center. The pediatric ED has an annual census of approximately 15,000 visits and has a full range of pediatric subspecialists available.
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 BROOKDALE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center (BUHMC) is the largest voluntary, non-profit teaching hospital (525 beds) in Brooklyn. It is a primary teaching affiliate of the medical school at State University of New York at Brooklyn (SUNY Brooklyn). It has ACGME approved residencies and fellowships in all major specialties.
Brookdale's ED sees 104,000 patient visits per year, and is one of three Level One Trauma Centers in Brooklyn. The ED's physical plant is newly renovated (completed May 1997) and features spacious trauma and medical resuscitation areas, a separate pediatric area with its own isolation and resuscitation rooms, a fully digital CT/Radiology suite, and its own sonogram. In addition the hospital offers 24-hour access to MR scanning. There are also five negative pressure isolation rooms and a separate psychiatric area.
There is a large conference room/library within the ED, which supplements the hospitals state of the art lecture hall and library. There is internet access available within the ED. Faculty and Residents have full use of BUHMC's DLAR compliant basic science research facilities.
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VA HOSPITAL BROOKLYN
The Veterans Health Administration is the largest integrated healthcare delivery system in the nation. VHA provides medical care services on a national basis to over six million unique veterans at over 150 hospitals, 800 outpatient clinics, and 120 nursing homes.
The mission of the VHA is to ensure that the health care needs of these veterans are met by providing them with primary care, specialized medical services (including emergency care) and related medical and social support services.
The Brooklyn Campus of the New York Harbor Healthcare System is located adjacent to Fort Hamilton in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. This facility serves as an affiliate for SUNY Downstate University. Our state of the art Emergency Department(ED) has a volume of 16,000 patients per year, has 19 monitored beds, a chest pain /observation unit that can accommodate 4 patients and 2 isolation rooms. The ED has Point of Care Testing for Troponin, 24/7 psychiatric coverage and allotted space for acute asthmatic patients. The newly designed Fast Track Clinic has 5 examination rooms staffed with 3 physicians and/or physician assistants.
There is continuing resident education with one-to-one teaching in a control paced environment, that includes bedside ultrasound, research projects, simulation lab training and, evidence-based medicine lectures. The VA has one of the most sophisticated electronic medical records in the country, interfacing with PACS/ VISTA and internet services.
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