Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center

{{Short description|Major teaching hospital}} {{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center | org_group = One Brooklyn Health | logo =  | logo_size =  | image = Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center.jpg | image_size = 225  | alt =  | caption =  | location = 1 Brookdale Plaza | region = Brooklyn | state = New York | country = US | healthcare = Private | funding = Non-profit | type = Teaching | affiliation = *New York Medical College *NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine *New York University College of Dentistry | patron =  | network =  | standards =  | emergency = II | helipad = No | beds = 530 | founded = 1921 | closed =  | demolished =  | website = [http://www.brookdalehospital.org www.brookdale.org] | other_links = Hospitals in Brooklyn | module =  }} The '''Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center''' (often called '''Brookdale Hospital''', or '''Brookdale''' for short)<ref name=Brookdale.NYT2011>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/nyregion/brookdale-hospital-workers-protest-loss-of-health-coverage.html |title=Brookdale Hospital Workers Protest Loss of Health Care |author=Anahad O’Connor |date=May 26, 2011}}</ref> is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) medical services provider in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. Brookdale's primary and secondary service areas together comprise 1 million residents.<ref name=Brookdale.OurPress/> It serves most of Eastern Brooklyn: Brownsville, East New York, Canarsie and East Flatbush.<ref name=Brookdale.NYT64>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/01/16/archives/beth-el-hospital-becomes-brookdale-hospital-center.html |title=Beth El Hospital Becomes Brookdale Hospital Center |date=January 16, 1964}}</ref>

Brookdale became a member of the One Brooklyn Health system along with Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center and Interfaith Medical Center upon the system's creation in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=About OBH |url=https://onebrooklynhealth.org/about-obh |access-date=16 February 2025}}</ref>

In 2017, it was described as "struggling."<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Crain's New York Business|url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170629/HEALTH_CARE/170629846/brookdale-hospital-named-dominick-stanzione-a-maimonides-executive-as-ceo-and-president |title=Struggling Brooklyn hospital taps new CEO |author=Jonathan Lamantia|date=June 29, 2017}}</ref> In 2009 they had 'let go' 240 employees.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17hospital.html |title=240 Laid Off at Brooklyn Hospital |author=Anemona Hartocollis |date=March 16, 2009}}</ref>

==Description== Brookdale is one of Brooklyn's largest voluntary nonprofit teaching hospitals, a regional tertiary care center, and is a Level II trauma center, Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center, Level III Perinatal Center, and AIDS center. It provides 24-hour emergency services and long-term specialty care, has outpatient programs.It provides outpatient ambulatory care services in both on campus and off site facilities. Brookdale specializes in rehabilitative medicine and long-term specialty care in its Schulman and Schachne Institute for Nursing and Rehabilitation and in addition is home to 86 units of assisted living and independent housing in the Arlene and David Schlang Pavilion, a federally subsidized housing project.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Jewish Week |url=https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/russian-seniors-cry-foul |title=Russian Seniors Cry Foul |author=Adam Dickter |date=December 13, 2002}}</ref>

In 1970, NYU's Medical Center and School of Medicine initiated an "affilitation agreement" to enhance training and provide student exchange opportunities.<ref name=Bookdale.NYU1970>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/23/archives/brookdale-hospital-to-work-with-nyu.html |title=Brookdale Hospital to work with N.Y.U. |date=January 23, 1970}}</ref>

In 2023, One Brooklyn Health at Brookdale Hospital became an MBSAQIP-accredited Center of Excellence for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. This program is led by Dr. Theadore Hufford who is also the Chief of General and MIS Surgery.

==History== After a decade of planning, the '''Brownsville and East New York Hospital''' opened on April 11, 1921, with one building housing 75 beds between Brownsville, East New York, and Canarsie.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112211368/hospital-work-ends-with-dance/|title=Hospital Work Ends With Dance|date=August 15, 1920|work=Brooklyn Times Union|access-date=October 29, 2022|page=10|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112211098/hospital-squabble-to-be-compromised/|title=Hospital Squabble To Be Compromised|date=January 9, 1921|work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|access-date=October 29, 2022|page=12|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112210882/aid-brownsville-hospital-brooklyn/|title=Aid Brownsville Hospital|date=May 2, 1921|work=Brooklyn Citizen|access-date=October 29, 2022|page=2|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112210638/200000-hospital-drive-will-close/|title=$200,000 Hospital Drive Will Close Next Friday|date=May 22, 1921|work=Brooklyn Standard Union|access-date=October 29, 2022|page=19|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The first President of the Medical Board was Simon R. Blatteis, who was also a leading figure in organizing the development of the hospital.<ref name="Abelow">Samuel Philip Abelow, ''History of Brooklyn Jewry'' (1937), p. 226.</ref> It was renamed '''Beth-El Hospital''' in 1932. The hospital, under the directorship of Jacob Rutstein, greatly expanded its facilities at that time. It became Brookdale Hospital in 1964,<ref name=Brookdale.NYT64/> and Brookdale Hospital Medical Center in 1971. In 1993, Brookdale opened the first designated long term AIDS center in Brooklyn.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112205946/naomi-freedman-serviss-brookdale/|first=Naomi Freedman|last=Serviss|title=Brookdale, LINROC Bridging Care Gap|date=June 28, 1998|work=New York Newsday|access-date=October 29, 2022|page=11|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> It was later renamed the Treatment for Life Center. The Radutzky Emergency Care Pavilion was dedicated in 1982, and was designated a Level I Trauma Center in the same year (now it is a level II trauma center). A major expansion was completed in 2004. In 2005 Brookdale became a 911 receiving Stroke Center.

The hospital was under the management of MediSys Health Network<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704629804575325393129714522 |title=Health Department Asks for Probe of Medisys |date=June 24, 2010 |author=Gershman, Jacob}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Crain's New York Business |url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120905/PULSE/120909982/its-official-brookdale-and-medisys-split |title=It's official: Brookdale and Medisys split |date=September 5, 2012}}</ref> for twelve years; this ended a year after Medisys's CEO and others pleaded guilty to federal charges, including bribery.<ref name=Brookdale.NYT2011/><ref name=Brookdale.OurPress>{{cite news |newspaper=Our Time Press |url=https://www.ourtimepress.com/medisys-out-brookdale-hospital-under-transitional-management |title=MediSys Out! Brookdale Hospital under Transitional Management |date=September 22, 2012 |access-date=November 22, 2020}}</ref>

In late October 2012, a few days before the expected arrival of Hurricane Sandy in New York, Brookdale Hospital was enlisted by the New York State Department of Health in the State's emergency response efforts.<ref name="SandyBrookdale.BKpaper">{{cite news|last=Bredderman|first=Will|date=November 21, 2012|title=Sandy leaves Coney Island Hospital in critical condition|url=https://www.brooklynpaper.com/sandy-leaves-coney-island-hospital-in-critical-condition|website=Brooklyn Paper}}</ref><ref name="SandyBrookdale.News12">{{cite news|date=November 14, 2012|title=Brookdale Hospital opens doors to Sandy victims|url=https://brooklyn.news12.com/brookdale-hospital-opens-doors-to-sandy-victims-34777516|website=News 12 Brooklyn}}</ref> Brookdale was awarded $2.3 million for unreimbursed operating costs.

==Facilities== Brookdale is both a treatment facility and an academic medical center, certified with 530 acute-care beds, and more than 50 specialty clinics. In addition, Brookdale and its affiliates comprise the following:<ref>{{cite web |website=American Hospital Directory |url=https://www.ahd.com/free_profile/330233/The_Brookdale_University_Hospital_and_Medical_Center/Brooklyn/New_York |title=The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York |quote=Total Staffed Beds: 797}}</ref> * 448 skilled nursing beds located in the affiliated Schulman and Schachne Institute for Nursing and Rehabilitation * 86 units of assisted living and independent living housing in the Arlene and David Schlang Pavilion * A comprehensive Adult Day Care Center * A Comprehensive Health Center, an advanced 16-level, fully equipped inpatient facility * A state-of-the art Emergency Department with a Level I Trauma Center and a full range of 24-hour emergency services * A community mental health center, an ambulatory surgery center and a 16-chair dental suite * OB space with Labor, Delivery, and Recovery Suites * An Urgent Care Center * Six primary care Brookdale Family Care Centers, located in the outlying communities * Pharmacy – The department was the spearhead for statewide clinical services, led by the longtime New York State Board of Pharmacy President Seymour Katz, and currently led by Johnny Ha. It has many advanced clinical programs and training in PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice and the PGY-2 Ambulatory Care residency programs each enroll 2 residents per year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.brookdalehospital.org/patient-services/pharmacy.html |title=Brookdale Hospital - Dept of Pharmacy |access-date=2016-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329041056/http://www.brookdalehospital.org/patient-services/pharmacy.html |archive-date=2016-03-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=NYSCHP Presidential Address|first=Qazi A.|last=Halim|date=1 June 2013|journal=Journal of Pharmacy Practice|volume=26|issue=3|pages=291–293|doi=10.1177/0897190013490563|pmid = 23739877|s2cid=206574441}}</ref>

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Category:Hospitals in Brooklyn Category:Voluntary hospitals Category:Trauma centers Category:Hospitals established in 1921 Category:1921 establishments in New York City Category:Brownsville, Brooklyn

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