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Maimonides staff and former NICU patient Alba Lopez Guitierrez (center) preparing to cut the ribbon commemorating the expansion of its NICU facility.Photos: Arthur De Gaeta/Brooklyn Eagle

Maimonides expands its neonatal intensive care unit 

January 5 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman  

Full slideshow below BOROUGH PARK — Maimonides Medical Center has expanded its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) — a designated area providing around-the-clock care to ill or premature newborn infants — by 17 beds. The unit will now contain 48 beds and grow to more than 7,000 square feet. The hospital held a ribbon-cutting ceremony […]

From left: Shari Suchoff, senior vice president Population Health and Government Relations at Maimonides; Jeffrey Avner, MD, chair, Department of Pediatrics, Maimonides Children’s Hospital; Ken Gibbs, president and CEO, Maimonides Medical Center; State Sen. Iwen Chu; Chiang-Yi, dance therapist; Alexis Ellis, Child Life specialist; and Douglas Jablon, special assistant to the president at Maimonides.Photos: Wayne Daren Schneiderman/Brooklyn Reporter

Sunshine on a cloudy day: Maimonides pediatric patients gifted by State Sen. Iwen Chu 

December 21 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman, Special from Brooklyn Reporter

BOROUGH PARK — It was a small, simple and intimate gathering at Maimonides Children’s Hospital (MCH) Monday with little to no fanfare.  State Sen. Iwen Chu made a guest appearance in an unassuming, yet festively-decorated room at the facility and distributed holiday gifts to a number of pediatric patients.  “It’s the holiday season — and […]