NYC Health + Hospitals Will Rename its Coney Island Hospital Campus As South Brooklyn Health; New 11-Story Hospital Building Will Be Named After U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Redesigned campus will include a new elevated Emergency Department, a number of modern specialty care suites, a new flood wall, and much more
NYC Health + Hospitals today announced a milestone in its transformation of the future health care campus on the current grounds of NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island. The new health care complex, expected to open in 2022, will be renamed NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health to reflect the comprehensive inpatient, surgical, outpatient and specialty services available on the campus and its essential role as the closest hospital to nearly 875,000 New Yorkers in the South Brooklyn community. The new 11-story hospital building and the existing Tower building within the renovated campus will be jointly named after United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a figure who espoused truth, equality and justice. The new campus name, NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health, and the new hospital name, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital, were approved July 29 by the NYC Health + Hospitals Board of Directors, and will become effective summer 2022 when the new building opens.
The redesigned campus will include a new elevated Emergency Department, state of the art operating rooms including robotic surgery, single-bedded inpatient rooms, a number of modern specialty care – endoscopy and interventional radiology and cardiology services, new entrances from Ocean Parkway, a new flood wall, improved parking for patients and staff, and much more. The redevelopment is part of a major $922.7 million hospital campus renovation funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to demolish, replace and repair flood damaged buildings from Superstorm Sandy.
Click here to see the artistic renderings of the future NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital.