Brooklyn Hospital Banks on Gentrification
Fort Greene’s Brooklyn Hospital Center is hoping proximity to condos like One Hanson Place and the Oro will help keep it in business. The 464-bed hospital, which emerged from bankruptcy in September, wants to increase its patient base by luring the area’s affluent new residents; to help achieve that goal, it’s putting $40 million into…
Fort Greene’s Brooklyn Hospital Center is hoping proximity to condos like One Hanson Place and the Oro will help keep it in business. The 464-bed hospital, which emerged from bankruptcy in September, wants to increase its patient base by luring the area’s affluent new residents; to help achieve that goal, it’s putting $40 million into capital improvements and is going to start focusing on new programs like cardiac services, weight management, and back pain. And while the hospital wants to convince deep-pocketed newcomers that its services are up to snuff, it’s also being called on to not abandon its its Medicaid and Medicare patients, who currently make up 80% of the hospital’s patient base. Think it can do both and turn a profit?
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You are a closet racist “rehab @ 10:39”. You are probably one of those angry people who sit at home in the morning feeling sorry for your injuries while you watch Jacoby and meyer commercials.
Celebrity rehab!
Discreetly located outside of Manhattan!
They would be rich.
I should probably sign up for that myself.
getting a name brand ob-gyn practice on board, some spiffy birthing rooms, and you might stand a chance… lich abandoned their birthing center in fave of the medical model, so there’s a niche that could be filled locally, since those wanting a more natural center in a hospital setting now go to SLR all the way on the west side.
“But does no one see an issue with the need for gentrification for this investment.”
Come on now, not everything is so controversial. It’s very simple. Gentrification = money. 80% of its current business is Medicare and Medicaid. The hospital was bankrupt in September.
It’s great to see that there is going to be some investment in the facility and the treatments offered. But does no one see an issue with the need for gentrification for this investment. I guess gentrifiers are the only persons in need of cardiac, weight management and back pain services. God knows what I would have done a few years ago if I needed heart surgery.
You know, it’s all relative. I bet many of the 80% of patients that pay with Medicaid and Medicare are grateful that they didn’t have to go to Woodhull.
10:15, expressing his/her relative preference, took a cab to Methodist to avoid Brooklyn Hospital. But I had an experience much like McFin’s wife at Methodist. I finally went home, took something considerably stronger than asprin (stashed away from an earlier injury) and went to Beth Israel. I will never, NEVER go to Methodist again, even now that I moved just a few blocks away. The funny thing? A few days later, I got a call from Methodist asking if I was satsified with the service. It’s rare that I am at a loss for words, but really, who walks out of an emergency room?
If I have to go to a Brooklyn hospital, I go to LICH.
well the rate limiting step in hospital is usually the pharmacy, an efficient pharmacy department here infected w/ high staff turnover and multiple management firing/ resignations
Developing a vigorous plastic surgery program could meet the needs both of criminals who need to change their appearance and of fancy people who need facelifts. Win-win!
Also stomach stapling, liposuction, erectile dysfunction, and hair-loss remediation (I think I just made up marketing-speak!).
And let’s not forget restless leg syndrome, or RLS.
I was born there in the 70’s and they almost sent my mom home with the wrong baby. They handed her a baby with a big head of hair, and she told them her baby was bald. They realized their mistake and gave me to them. She told me that people were giving birth in the halls it was so croweded there. She regrets having birthed there.