What’s News Breaking: Monday, August 2, 2021
CO-NAMING HOSPITAL FOR LATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE GINSBURG: A new health care complex that NYC Health + Hospitals is building will also receive a new name. Currently known as NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island (and nicknamed as Coney Island Hospital), the redeveloped health care complex, expected to open next year, 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 that part of the borough. 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 redevelopment, which will include an elevated Emergency Department, state-of-the-art operating rooms including robotic surgery, is part of a $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.
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