Wyckoff Heights Medical Center

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Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
Geography
Location374 Stockholm Street
Brooklyn, NY 11237, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Coordinates 40°42′15″N73°55′2″W / 40.70417°N 73.91722°W / 40.70417; -73.91722
Services
Beds350
History
Opened1889
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Website www.wyckoffhospital.org
Lists Hospitals in New York
Other links Hospitals in Brooklyn

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is a 350-bed [1] teaching hospital located in the Wyckoff Heights section of Bushwick, Brooklyn in New York City. The hospital is an academic affiliate of the NewYork-Presbyterian's Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, the New York Medical College and New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. [2] [3] The primary goal of the center is to train future physicians that are qualified medically and personably. [4]

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History

In 1887 the German Hospital Society of Brooklyn was organized by the Plattdeutscher Volksfest-Verein for the purpose of raising funds, purchasing land, and constructing a hospital to serve the large German immigrant community in Brooklyn. [5]

The hospital opened its doors in 1899 as the German Hospital of Brooklyn, [6] but was renamed Wyckoff Heights Hospital after World War I because of anti-German sentiments [7] and eventually renamed Wyckoff Heights Medical Center.

During the 1990s, Wyckoff was managed by Preferred Health Network. [8]

Designations and achievements

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is a New York State designated stroke center and level III perinatal center. [9] [10]

The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association awarded the hospital with a "Silver Performance Achievement Award" in 2011 [11] and a "Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award" in 2012. [12]

Surgeons at Wyckoff Medical Center were the first in the state and surrounding Tri-state area to perform an artificial disc implant into a spine. [13]

In 2006 Wyckoff Heights Medical Center received top honors from HSS Incorporated (a medical coding software developer) for the hospital's medical coding practices, as part of the third-annual Top 200 Coding Hospital Report. [14]

Community programs

Asthmapolis

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is the first New York area hospital to use Asthmapolis. [15] Marketed as the BreathEasy program, the hospital provides participants with the smartphone application and a snap-on sensor that tracks how often participants use their asthma inhaler. Wyckoff physicians receive immediate notification of a patient's worsening condition. The program is offered through the hospital's pediatric department. [16]

Patient safety ratings

In 2012, Consumer Reports ranked Wyckoff Heights Medical Center worse than average in the NYC area in patient safety. [17]

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