March 16, 2021 – NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital yesterday opened the Center for Community Health, a new, six-story, 400,000-square-foot ambulatory care center.
The new facility, located at the NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital campus on 6th Street between 7th Avenue and 8th Avenue in Park Slope, is the first major ambulatory care facility built in Brooklyn in 40 years, the hospital said.
The Center for Community Health offers a wide range of ambulatory care services, including oncology, digestive, and endoscopy services, as well as an infusion center, ambulatory surgery, diagnostic imaging center, and more.
Multidisciplinary teams of physicians from Weill Cornell Medicine work together to consider each patient holistically, whether they are being treated for digestive diseases, cardiovascular issues, cancer, or other conditions, or coming for outpatient surgery, interventional radiology, or diagnostic imaging.
Clinical features of the building include:
- 12 state-of-the-art operating rooms for ambulatory surgery, six procedure rooms for outpatient endoscopy and special procedures
- Diagnostic imaging services
- Pre-anesthesia evaluation center
- Prep and recovery for ambulatory surgery
- Ambulatory infusion center with dedicated pharmacy and lab
- Clinical trials office
- Multi-specialty medical and surgical practices