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The
North Bronx Healthcare Network (NBHN) is one of six regional networks
established by the NYC Health & Hospitals Corporation in 1994 to improve
patient care and better respond to community needs.
- The
North Bronx Healthcare Network consists of Jacobi Medical Center
(JMC), North Central Bronx Hospital (NCBH) and affiliated community
health care centers.
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This regional network offers an accessible, complete continuum of care
– acute, preventive, primary, specialty, inpatient/outpatient,
rehabilitative and home care.
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The NBHN operates under the direction of Network Senior Vice President
William Walsh, who is also Executive Director at Jacobi Medical
Center, and Arthur Wagner as Chief Operating Officer at JMC and NCBH.
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NBHN is the sole public provider of heath care services in the
North Bronx, with an annual average of:
35,400 inpatient discharges
162,000 emergency visits
558,500 outpatient visits
4,300 ambulatory surgery visits.
- Recognized
by the communities it serves as the socially responsible, experienced
provider of choice for the more vulnerable populations – the medically
underserved, uninsured, Medicaid/Medicare recipients, and uniformed
services personnel.
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Affiliated with the New York Medical Alliance (the Alliance),
for the provision of medical and mental health services to the
Network.
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major academic affiliate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
(AECOM), with the majority of Alliance physicians appointed to the AECOM
faculty.
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