Long Island College Hospital
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Information:
Long Island College
Hospital
339 Hicks Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 780-1000
http://www.wehealny.org/patients/lich_description.html
Overview of Hospital: LICH was founded in 1858 as a hospital and medical school. Two years later, it became the first medical school in the United States to make bedside teaching a standard part of its curriculum, setting an educational standard adopted by virtually every teaching hospital in the nation.
LICH has led the way in medical breakthroughs including introducing the stethoscope, maintaining the city's longest continually operating ambulance service, as well as running the oldest School of Nursing program in the U.S.
Operating 506 certified beds for adults and children, LICH offers a full range of specialties in more than 20 medical disciplines. LICH employs approximately 320 physicians and residents, 430 RNs, and an additional 1,200 full-time employees to support its services and mission.
Affiliated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine, University Hospital of Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, State University of NY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, and the New York Medical College, LICH takes education beyond the healthcare professionals and into the community. The Healthy Families Brooklyn Initiative is dedicated to improving the health of medically underserved residents in Brooklyn by improving access to care, building partnerships with community organizations, and advancing educational efforts to emphasize the benefits of preventive medicine.
In October 2009, LICH was awarded $22 million in state aid under the Health Care Affordability and Efficiency Law (HEAL-NY) “to ensure continued delivery of essential health care services in Brooklyn.” LICH is in discussions with SUNY Downstate Medical Center for a potential corporate consolidation.
Specialties: Long Island College Hospital offers the following services:
- LICH was a major participant in the New York State Department of Health’s movement to assign certain hospitals as designated Stroke Centers, and served as one of the Health Department’s pilot demonstration sites.
- After receiving approval from New York State for emergency percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as part of the Cardiovascular Patient Outcomes Research Teams (C-PORT) clinical trial, LICH was one of the first hospitals in New York without a cardiac surgery program to perform emergency angioplasty on heart attack patients.
- LICH was awarded with a certificate of appreciation for “outstanding service and assistance” to the police department and the community at large.
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