Maimonides Medical Center Explained

Maimonides Medical Center
Org/Group:	Northwell Health
Location:	4802 10th Avenue
Region:	Brooklyn
State:	New York
Country:	US
Healthcare:	Private
Type:	Teaching
Emergency:	Level I adult trauma center, Level II pediatric trauma center
Affiliation:	Albert Einstein College of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, St. George's University^[1]
Beds:	711
Founded:	1911
Wiki-Links:	Hospitals in Brooklyn

Maimonides Medical Center is a non-profit, non-sectarian hospital located in Borough Park, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York.^[2] Maimonides is both a treatment facility and academic medical center with 711 beds, and more than 70 primary care and sub-specialty programs. As of August 1, 2016, Maimonides Medical Center was an adult and pediatric trauma center, and Brooklyn's only pediatric trauma center.^{[3] [4]}

History

Early years

The institution was founded in 1911 as the New Utrecht Dispensary. Several small dispensaries merged with Utrecht in 1919 to form the Israel Hospital of Brooklyn. In 1920 Israel Hospital merged with Zion Hospital to form United Israel Zion Hospital, later renamed Israel Zion Hospital. Maimonides Medical Center was formed as a result of the merger of United Israel Zion Hospital and Beth Moses Hospital in 1947. The institution was named after Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon, a 12th-century Jewish philosopher and doctor.^[5]

Expansion

The Maimonides Medical Center expanded its emergency department in 1997 with the opening of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Emergency Center. In September 2007, construction started on space in a new building at the corner of 48th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway. There are two wings, the main differences being in the severity of patients seen. In 2015 Maimonides broke ground on 3.4 million square feet of medical office space to allow patients to visit an array of health care providers in the same building.

Affiliation

In February 2013, Maimonides Medical Center, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, and Montefiore Medical Center signed an affiliation agreement that made Maimonides a university hospital and the Brooklyn campus of Albert Einstein College of Medicine.^[6] In July 2021, Maimonides Medical Center announced an affiliation with New York Community Hospital, fully expanding a partnership that began with a clinical services agreement in 2018. Maimonides Medical Center will co-operate the smaller, 134-bed hospital.^[7]

Innovations

Several innovations in clinical medicine have occurred at Maimonides. In 1961, the commercial pacemaker was developed in the Maimonides Research Laboratory.^[8] The same laboratory was co-developer of the intra-aortic balloon pump in 1970.^[8] Implantation of first partial mechanical heart was performed in the hospital in 1966.^[9] The following year, the second human heart transplant in the world (and the first in the US) was performed at Maimonides by Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz.^[9] Several other technical feats were achieved by the clinicians in the hospital, such as the first needle aspiration biopsy in the US in 1981, the first robotic surgery for pediatric patients in the US in 2001, and the first angioplasty during a heart attack in 1983.^[8]

In 2007, the New York Times reported that in an analysis of about 5,000 hospitals by the Department of Health and Human services, Maimonides was one of the 50 hospitals with the lowest mortality rates.^[10] In 2010, Maimonides received the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence,^[11] ranking it among the top 5% of hospitals in the entire nation for overall quality outcomes. Maimonides was also listed among the top 5 individual hospitals in New York State for cardiology services, coronary interventional procedures, stroke treatment, and gastrointestinal medical services.^[12]

Maimonides Park

In May 2021, the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball team announced their ballpark would be named Maimonides Park in a naming-rights deal with Maimonides Medical Center.^[13]

Information technology

Maimonides Medical Center is a pioneer in implementing health information technology.^[14] and is consistently ranked one of the "Most Wired" Hospitals.^[15]

Six Centers of Excellence

• The Cancer Center.^[16]
• The Brooklyn Breast Cancer Program at the Maimonides Medical Center is Brooklyn's first dedicated, multi specialty group breast cancer program. The program is headquartered in the Gilbert Rivera Pavilion and is a beautiful, spa-like facility that features live plants, water features and the highest technology available including tomosynthesis mammography, 3T MRI and high resolution ultrasound. The program is accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (American College of Surgeons), the Commission on Cancer and is a three time Breast Imaging Center of Excellence (American College of Radiology). The program has treated more than 4000 women with primary breast cancer since 2008 and is recognized as one of America's top programs. The program is Directed by Dr. Patrick Ivan Borgen who, prior to joining Maimonides, was the Chief Breast Cancer Surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan for 15 years.
• Maimonides Infants & Children's Hospital of Brooklyn. The Stella and Joseph Payson Birthing Center handles more births than any other hospital in New York State.^[17]
• The ACE "Acute Care for the Elderly" Unit focuses on elderly patients, their families and their home environments.^[18]
• The Jaffe Stroke Center.^[19] Maimonides has received the HealthGrades Stroke Care Excellence Award for 2008, 2009 and 2010.^[20]
• The Cardiac Institute offers invasive and noninvasive, medical and surgical, adult and pediatric care. The Cardiac Institute is a partnership between referring doctors, cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, nurses and professional staff.^[21] Maimonides has received the HealthGrades Cardiac Care Excellence Award (2009, 2010) and the HealthGrades Coronary Intervention Excellence Award (2008, 2009 and 2010).^[20]

Diversity

Due to its culturally diversified location, Maimonides has recruited multilingual physicians, nurses, and staff.^[22] There are translators for 67 languages available through a commercially available service.^[23]

New York State Department of Health designations

• Regional Perinatal Center^[24]
• Stroke Center
• Pediatric and Adult Trauma Center^[3]

Notable deaths

• Jacob Bosniak (1887–1963)^[25]
• Norbert Pearlroth (1893–1983)^[26]

External links

• Brooklyn Hospital

Notes and References

1. Web site: Maimonides Medical Center. 2007-10-19. FREIDA Online institution information. American Medical Association.
2. Web site: About Our Clinical Services - Maimonides Medical Center.
3. Web site: Accredited Adult and Children's Trauma Center. www.maimonidesmed.org. 2016-08-04.
4. Web site: Maimonides Medical Center. American Hospital Directory. February 9, 2022.
5. Web site: Interactive Timeline. 2016-01-04. Maimonides Medical Center.
6. News: Maimonides Medical Center in New York to Align With Montefiore, Albert Einstein Medicine . Becker's Hospital Review . Jim . McLaughlin . 2013-02-27.
7. Web site: Maimonides, NYCH officially announce affiliation. Jaime. DeJesus. July 19, 2021. November 15, 2021. Brooklyn Reporter.
8. Web site: A Culture of Innovation. 2007-10-19. Maimonides Medical Center.
9. Web site: A History of Achievements in Cardiac Care at Maimonides. 2007-10-19. Maimonides Medical Center.
10. News: 2007-06-21 . Hospital Death Rates . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-02-02 . 0362-4331.
11. http://www.healthgrades.com/hospital-directory/new-york-ny-nyc-suburbs-long-island/maimonides-medical-center-hgst410a7b36330194, HealthGrades Hospital Awards
12. http://www.maimonidesmed.org/Main/CultureofInnovation.aspx, Maimonides Culture of Innovation
13. Web site: New for 2021: Maimonides Park. Ballpark Digest. May 19, 2021. November 15, 2021.
14. Web site: Jump-starting a high-tech initiative . 2007-10-19 . Chris . Serb . June 2007 . HHN Most Wired Magazine . Health Forum . https://web.archive.org/web/20081017062316/http://www.hhnmostwired.com/hhnmostwired_app/jsp/articledisplay.jsp?dcrpath=HHNMOSTWIRED%2FPubsNewsArticleMostWired%2Fdata%2F07Spring%2F07Spring_MW_CoverStory&domain=HHNMOSTWIRED . 2008-10-17 . dead.
15. http://www.hhnmostwired.com/hhnmostwired_app/index.jsp HHN Most Wired
16. Web site: Cancer Center | Clinical Services | Maimonides Medical Center - www.Maimonidesmed.org . 2010-12-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101129023104/http://www.maimonidesmed.org/Main/ClinicalServices/Cancer_Center_24.aspx . 2010-11-29 . dead .
17. News: Brooklyn Mothers Choosing Manhattan Hospitals . The New York Times . Anemona . Hartocollis . Ford . Fessenden . 2010-06-25.
18. Web site: Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) | Clinical Sub Pages | Maimonides Medical Center - www.Maimonidesmed.org . 2010-12-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101218170928/http://maimonidesmed.org/Main/ClinicalSubPages/Acute-Care-for-the-Elderly-ACE-85.aspx . 2010-12-18 . dead .
19. Web site: Jaffe Stroke Center | Clinical Services | Maimonides Medical Center - www.Maimonidesmed.org . 2010-12-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101218082335/http://maimonidesmed.org/Main/ClinicalServices/Stroke_Center_100.aspx . 2010-12-18 . dead .
20. Web site: Maimonides Medical Center - Brooklyn, NY - Healthgrades. www.healthgrades.com.
21. http://199.117.41.140/clinical.cfm?id=88{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
22. Web site: We Speak Your Language | Maimonides Medical Center - www.MMCBrooklyn.org . 2015-05-16 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518094656/http://www.maimonidesmed.org/Main/Public/WeSpeakYourLanguage.aspx . 2015-05-18 .
23. News: 'Scrubs' Near the D Train . The New York Times . Julie . Salamon . 2008-05-11.
24. Web site: NYS Health Profile: Maimonides Medical Center. profiles.health.ny.gov.
25. News: 26 August 1963 . Rabbi Jacob Bosnick Dies at 75; Headed Ocean Parkway Center . en . Late City . CXII . 27 . . 38565 . New York, N.Y. . 2023-08-11.
26. News: Norbert Pearlroth, 89, Researcher For 52 Years For 'Believe It Or Not' . Norbert Pearlroth, who combed hundreds of thousands of books in the New York Public Library over 52 years as sole researcher for Ripley's Believe It or Not, died of heart and kidney diseases Thursday at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn. He was 89 years old and lived in Brooklyn. ... . . April 15, 1983 . 2015-01-11 .