Jacobi
Medical Center is a member of the New York City Health and Hospitals
Corporation.
Largest
Public Hospital in the Bronx (500+ beds).
Affiliated
for clinical services with the New York Medical Alliance, P.C.
A
major academic affiliate and teaching site of the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine.
Offers
a complete range of acute, specialty, general care and psychiatric
services.
Offers
specialized Emergency Departments for adult, pediatric and psychiatric
services.
A
Level I Trauma Center (serving the North Bronx and Lower Westchester);
the regional Hyperbaric Center and Regional Snakebite Center for
the Tristate area.
Operates
the only multi-person emergency hyperbaric chamber in New York
City.
Operates
the only Burn Unit in the Bronx, the second largest in New York
City, with 30 years of clinical research and teaching experience,
pioneering in early surgical intervention to preserve skin and
minimize infection and injury.
Serves
as a referral center for acute psychiatry, burn care, neonatology,
infectious disease, chest medicine, tropical medicine, rehabilitation
and home care.
Operates
a Level III Neonatal ICU with one of the best outcome records
in the United States.
Operates
a Women’s Health Center, a “model” primary care program that provides
the full spectrum of women’s health needs from adolescence through
maturity.
Operates
a state-of-the-art Outpatient Center for adult AIDS patients.
Sponsors
approved residency and fellowship training programs in over 40
specialties and subspecialties.
HHC
“pilot” site for adaptation of electronic patient management system
to create a computerized patient record.
