Woodhull Medical Center

Flushing Avenue side

Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center is a health care system located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York City, United States. Its focus is on preventing disease and promoting healthy lifestyles in the community of North Brooklyn through its fifteen centers. Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center is administratively under New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.

Mayor John V. Lindsay and Governor Nelson Rockefeller proposed Woodhull hospital in 1967, as a modern facility with single bed rooms and amenities found in private hospitals. Ground was broken in 1970 and due to budget issues it was not completed until 1982.^[1]

Woodhull has a program against childhood asthma that is prevalent in the Brooklyn area. It has partnership with local schools and the North Brooklyn Asthma Action Alliance for this cause. Woodhull's Paul Poroski Family Center has been designated as an AIDS Center by the New York State. The center has the following special subdivisions: AIDS Center; Behavioral Health; Chronic Care Management; Asthma Care; Diabetes Care; Level III Perinatal Center; SAFE (Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner) SART (Sexual Assault Response Teams) Center; Women's Health.

Artist Keith Haring created a public mural in the ambulatory care department.

References

↑ Official history

External links

"Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center". New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC).
"Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center". Health Profiles. NY Health.

Coordinates: 40°41′58″N 73°56′33″W / 40.69944°N 73.94250°W / 40.69944; -73.94250

NYC Health + Hospitals

Tertiary teaching hospitals	Bellevue Coney Island Elmhurst Harlem Jacobi Kings County Lincoln Queens Woodhull

Specialty-care hospitals	Coler Gouverneur

Community hospitals	Metropolitan North Central Bronx

Hospitals in New York City

Manhattan	Bellevue Coler Gracie Square Harlem Joint Diseases Lenox Hill Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Manhattan Psychiatric Manhattan Veterans Administration Memorial Sloan Kettering Metropolitan Morgan Stanley Children's Mount Sinai Mount Sinai Beth Israel Mount Sinai St. Luke's Mount Sinai West New York Eye and Ear of Mount Sinai NewYork–Presbyterian-Columbia NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital/Lower Manhattan NewYork-Presbyterian-Cornell NYU Langone Rockefeller Sloane Special Surgery

Brooklyn	Brookdale Brooklyn Brooklyn Veterans Administration Coney Island Interfaith Kingsbrook Kings County Maimonides Mount Sinai Brooklyn New York Community New York Methodist NYU Lutheran SUNY Downstate Woodhull Wyckoff Heights

The Bronx	Bronx Psychiatric Bronx-Lebanon Calvary Jacobi James J. Peters Veterans Administration Lincoln Montefiore–Moses Division Montefiore–Weiler (Einstein) Division Montefiore–Wakefield Division North Central Bronx St. Barnabas

Queens	Creedmoor Elmhurst Floating Flushing Forest Hills Jamaica Long Island Jewish New York–Presbyterian Queens Queens Queens Children's Psychiatric St. John's Episcopal South Shore St. Mary's (Children) Zucker Hillside

Staten Island	Bayley Seton Richmond University South Beach Psychiatric Staten Island University

Networks	Mount Sinai NYC Health + Hospitals NewYork-Presbyterian Northwell Health

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