Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center (Kingsbrook) has received a $15.8 million funding award from the Healthcare Efficiency and Affordability Law for New Yorkers (HEAL NY) Capital Restructuring Initiatives program to facilitate furthering its cooperative initiatives with the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center/University Hospital of Brooklyn (Downstate/UHB), including developing a regional core clinical laboratory, consolidating pediatric services, and coordinating adult inpatient resources.
Kingsbrook, 585 Schenectady Avenue, and Downstate/UHB, 450 Clarkson Avenue, have a long history of dedicated, excellent service to the residents of Central Brooklyn. They currently work cooperatively on a number of initiatives, including the Brooklyn Healthcare Improvement Project, the training of graduate medical residents and fellows who rotate from Downstate/UHB through Kingsbrook and its long term care facility, Rutland Nursing Home, for medical training and efforts around cardiac care.
Building on these programs, Kingsbrook and Downstate/UHB have been engaged in ongoing efforts to better coordinate their activities for the benefit of the community and their respective graduate medical education residents. Each has identified the need for clinical laboratory facilities and discussed developing a new regional core clinical laboratory to serve both institutions and enhance Downstate’s efforts to expand its ambulatory care facilities. As a result, the organizations intend to jointly develop a state of the art clinical laboratory that will enable them to better serve their community and increase access to high quality, cost-effective and efficient patient care.
They also believe that by better combining their services to pediatric patients, they will enhance the breadth and quality of services to this important constituency. The grant also allows use of Kingsbrook beds to help renovate Downstate/UHB beds and meet inpatient overflow that cannot be met at Downstate.
