Standing O is snipping the ribbon on the new lobby

Borough Park

Not many people have done as much for their community as Standing O pal and former president of Maimonides Medical Center, Pamela Brier. That’s why when most people retire all they get is gold watch, a cake and a “thank you very much,” but our friend Pam — a former Brooklyn Woman of Distinction — got a lobby named after her.

New hospital president Ken Gibbs snipped the ceremonial ribbon on the main lobby — now named after Pamela — as trustees Steven Oppenheim, Robert Machinist, Moshe Wieder, Daniel Nelson, Jack Hidary, Peter Rebenwurzel, Martin Payson, Mort Klaus, Andrew Kohen, Erminia Rivera, and Frank Naccarato, and board chairman Eugene Keilin, shared in the confetti and hoopla.

Pamela served Maimonides Medical Center for 20 years, having joined the hospital in 1995 as chief operating officer and executive vice president, and becoming president and chief executive officer in 2003. She dedicated her tenure to improving the health of all New Yorkers, said Gibbs.

“There is no one quite like Pam Brier,” he said. “It is impossible to count the number of lives she has touched as the extraordinary leader of Maimonides Medical Center.”

In addition to her many accomplishments in expanding services to meet community needs, under her leadership the hospital gained a national reputation for outstanding clinical care outcomes, placing it among the top 10 hospitals in the country to treat heart attacks, heart failures, and pneumonia. Its enhanced clinical services include the borough’s only full-service Cancer and Breast Centers, the Payson Birthing Center where more babies are delivered than at any other hospital in the state, a new nine-floor patient care pavilion, and the city’s first Hybrid Operating Room along with a Department of Population Health to better manage the care of patients in Southern Brooklyn.