Specialization Of NYC Health Hospitals Kings County
Cancer Surgery
Cosmetic Surgery
Dentistry
ENT
General Surgeon
Gynaecology
Neuro Surgeon
Neurologist
Ophthalmology
Orthopedics
Paediatrics
Pediatrics
Podiatry
Urology
About NYC Health Hospitals Kings County
At Kings County Hospital Center, we take pride in providing our customers with the highest quality healthcare. Equipped with the latest technology, modern facilities and an experienced, board-certified staff, we offer more services today than ever before.
Kings County Hospital Center has a rich legacy for its pioneering role in medicine. Today, with over 627 beds, our hospital remains on the cutting edge of technology and provides the most modern procedures with state-of-the-art equipment. Built in 1831 as a one room infirmary for publicly supported care of the sick, Kings County Hospital Center continues to be a leading healthcare facility whose mission is to provide care to everyone regardless of their ability to pay. The hospital provides a wide range of health services, and specialties are offered in all fields of modern medicine. More than 200 clinics provide a wide array of ambulatory care services.
Kings County Hospital Center operates a world-renowned Level 1 Trauma Center, one of only three in the borough, which serves 2.6 million residents of Brooklyn and Staten Island.
In addition to its main campus, Kings County Hospital Center is affiliated with the Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Neponsit Adult Day Health Care, East New York Diagnostic & Treatment Center and the Bedford-Stuyvesant Alcoholism Treatment Center. Also, seven (7) Family Health Service satellite sites serves as a back-up facility for many health centers and hospitals in the borough.
As the anchor facility of the Central Brooklyn Family Health Network, Kings County Hospital Center maintains close relationships with diagnostic and long term care centers within the network, and is a member institution of the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation. The hospital is academically affiliated with SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
History Of NYC Health Hospitals Kings County
Kings County Hospital Center was founded more than 175 years ago. The hospital we know today has its origins in an institution known as the Almshouse that evolved in the 18th and 19th centuries. The hospital sits on land that was bought from the Martense family for three thousand dollars. In 1837, a hospital building was completed; this building, 86 feet long by 36 feet wide, was the beginning of the present extensive physical plant which has become one of the largest municipal hospitals in the United States.
Through the years, many projects were completed within the Center bringing physical growth and improved clinical facilities for patient care and teaching of all types and levels of health workers. The lay Advisory Board, composed of outstanding members of the community, devoted to the activities and welfare of the hospital, was established in May 1951. It has been succeeded by a Community Advisory Board officially installed May 12, 1972, and an active Consumer Council dedicated to the objective of optimum and concerned patient care.
The Center has claimed many "firsts" in the field of medicine: it was the site of the first open-heart surgery performed in New York State; Kings County physicians invented the world's first hemodialysis machine, conducted the first studies of HIV infection in women and produced the first human images using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In addition, Kings County was named the first Level 1 Trauma Center in the U.S.
Throughout the growth and development of Kings County Hospital Center, devoted administrative, medical, nursing and hospital staff have generously given of their knowledge, time and talents to fulfill the words of the hospital dedication: "Let all who serve here remember that this institution is dedicated to the care of all who are helpless and afflicted. This before all else."
