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Peninsula Hospital Center

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Funding
  
Non-profit hospital

Helipad
  
Yes

Headquarters
  
New York, United States

Hospital type
  
Community

Closed
  
2012

Founded
  
1908

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Location
  
51-15 Beach Channel Drive, Far Rockaway, NY, United States

Similar
  
Long Beach Medical, Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn Hospital Center, Lutheran Medical Center, Blythedale Children's Hospital

Peninsula Hospital Center (PHC), formerly known as Peninsula General Hospital, was a community hospital in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, New York. PHC, founded in 1908, was an affiliate of the MediSys Health Network at the time of its closure.

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PHC ran a 173-bed acute care community teaching hospital campus, and a 200-bed long-term care and rehabilitation center, serving the communities of the Rockaways, the Five Towns of Nassau County and parts of Queens and Brooklyn. The hospital closed in 2012.

Since 2014 the facility has been known as Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center operated by Cassena Care.

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Services

PHC offered the following medical services:

  • Ambulatory Surgery
  • Cardiology
  • Dentistry
  • Diabetes Care
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Endoscopy
  • Family Medicine
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Respiratory Care
  • Oncology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Pediatric Medicine
  • Podiatry
  • Surgery
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Care
  • Medical staff residency training records and Verifications have become available through the Federation Credentials Verification Service (FCVS) Closed Residency program records.

    Auxiliary services

    Nursing Home: Attached to the hospital is a 200-bed facility known as the Peninsula Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation (PCECR).

    Family Health Center: This facility offered comprehensive outpatient care for all ages.

    References

    Peninsula Hospital Center Wikipedia