Kings County Hospital Center
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| Kings County Hospital Center | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 451 Clarkson Avenue 11203, East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°39′24″N 73°56′42″W / 40.65667°N 73.94500°W |
| Organization | |
| Funding | Public hospital |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | SUNY Downstate College of Medicine[1] |
| Network | NYC Health + Hospitals[1] |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I trauma center |
| Beds | 627[1] |
| History | |
| Opened | 1831[1] |
| Links | |
| Website | nychhc |
| Lists | Hospitals in New York State |
| Other links | Hospitals in Brooklyn |
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The hospital offers a wide range of services – women's health, child & teen health, ambulatory care, behavior health, diagnostic services and surgical services.[2]
Kings County Hospital has an extensive history treating acutely injured patients and publishing in the field of trauma surgery, as early as 1906, on the subject of surgical management of epidural hematomas by C.F. Barber, a surgeon at the hospital.[3] The hospital has claimed many other "firsts" in the field of medicine, For instance, it was the site of the first open-heart surgery performed in New York State; NYC Health+Hospitals/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).[4]
Due to Kings County Hospital's prestige, many New York City Police Department officers reportedly prefer to get sent to the hospital if they get shot.[5]
Controversy
Kings County Hospital has paid out more than 1⁄3 of all medical malpractice claims against the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (over $60 million). Since there are 11 city hospitals, this indicates that the hospital has a very high rate of malpractice claims compared to other city hospitals. It has been the most-sued hospital of the city's health care system.[6] Kings County has also been criticized as having the longest emergency room wait of all public hospitals in New York City, with an average wait of 90 minutes for non-life-threatening conditions.[7]
On June 19, 2008, Esmin Green, a 49-year-old Jamaica native, died in the waiting room of the hospital's G Building, a psychiatric ward, which resulted in several people being fired, as well as pending investigations and lawsuits. The incident came in the midst of a federal lawsuit charging neglect by the hospital.[8][9]
References
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- ^ a b c d "About NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County". City of New York. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
- ^ "HHC - Services - Kings County Hospital Center". www.nyc.gov.
- ^ Barber, C.F. (1906). "A More Careful Diagnosis in Head Injuries" (PDF). Brooklyn Medical Journal. 20 (12): 351–352. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
- ^ "History". Retrieved August 22, 2019.
- ^ Andy Newman (July 15, 2007). "In Hospital Scrubs and Officer's Blues, a Kinship". The New York Times. Retrieved July 9, 2008.
- ^ "Kings County Hospital Facing Another Lawsuit". WNYC – News. Retrieved July 9, 2008.
- ^ Blau, Reuven (December 2, 2018). "Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn has the longest emergency room wait of city hospitals". nydailynews.com. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
- ^ Marzulli, John (June 30, 2008). "Hospital video shows no one helped dying woman". New York Daily News.
- ^ "Video shows death of US patient". bbc.co.uk. BBC. July 2, 2008. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
