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Phone
  
+1 718-963-7272

Number of beds
  
350

Founded
  
1889

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center

Location
  
374 Stockholm Street Brooklyn, NY 11237 United States

Website
  
www.wyckoffhospital.org

Address
  
374 Stockholm St, Brooklyn, NY 11237, USA

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Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is a 350-bed teaching hospital located in the Wyckoff Heights section of Bushwick, Brooklyn in New York City. The hospital is an academic affiliate of the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, the New York Medical College and New York Institute of Technology. The primary goal of the center is to train future physicians that are qualified medically and personably.

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History

In 1887 the German Hospital Society of Brooklyn was organized by the Plattdeutscher Volksfest-Verein for the purpose of raising funds, purchasing land, and constructing a hospital to serve the large German immigrant community in Brooklyn.

The hospital opened its doors in 1899 as the German Hospital of Brooklyn, but was renamed Wyckoff Heights Hospital after World War I because of anti-German sentiments and eventually renamed Wyckoff Heights Medical Center.

Designations and achievements

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is a New York State designated stroke center and level III perinatal center.

The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association awarded the hospital with a "Silver Performance Achievement Award" in 2011 and a "Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award" in 2012.

Surgeons at Wyckoff Medical Center were the first in the state and surrounding Tri-state area to perform an artificial disc implant into a spine.

In 2006 Wyckoff Heights Medical Center received top honors from HSS Incorporated (a medical coding software developer) for the hospital's medical coding practices, as part of the third-annual Top 200 Coding Hospital Report.

Community programs

Asthmapolis

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is the first New York area hospital to use Asthmapolis. Marketed as the BreathEasy program, the hospital provides participants with the smartphone application and a snap-on sensor that tracks how often participants use their asthma inhaler. Wyckoff physicians receive immediate notification of a patients worsening condition. The program is offered through the hospitals pediatric department.

References

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center Wikipedia