Maimonides Medical Center
| Maimonides Medical Center | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 4802 Tenth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Private |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine , Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 711 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1911 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.maimonidesmed.org |
| Lists | Hospitals in New York |
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. 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 is an adult and pediatric trauma center, being Brooklyn's only pediatric trauma center.
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 it merged with Zion hospital and became United Israel Zion Hospital, later renamed to Israel Zion Hospital.
The United Israel Zion Hospital and Beth Moses Hospital merged in 1947 to give rise to the Maimonides Medical Center. The institution is named after Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon, a 12th century Jewish philosopher.
In 1993, a faulty respirator supplying oxygen to an elderly woman exploded, killing her and two other patients. Investigators said that an electrical fault in the machine had caused it to ignite. The fire created a blast fed by pure oxygen, which sent a fireball through a seventh-floor window. Fire officials said that two patients were burned to death, and a third patient across the hall, died of smoke inhalation. The faulty respirator was manufactured by Puritan Bennett. Barry M. Spero, the hospital's president at the time, said that biomedical engineers routinely checked the equipment according to specifications by the manufacturer. He referred to the incident as, "truly a catastrophic disaster."
The Maimonides Medical Center last expanded its emergency department in 1997 with the opening of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Emergency Center. Beginning in September 2007 and continuing through the end of the year, the Medical Center started construction on additional space in the new building at the corner of 48th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway. The New section of the Emergency Room has already been completed and is presently serving patients.There are 2 wings, one is known as the South side and the other referred to as the North side, the main differences in both side are the acuity or severity of patients seen. In 2015 Maimonides Medical Center broke ground on 3.4 million square feet of medical office space, which will allow patients to visit an array of health care providers in the same building.
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