New York Methodist Hospital will host a free lung cancer screening awareness day. The Third Annual Fred L. Mazzilli Lung Cancer Screening Awareness Day will feature free blood pressure and spirometry screenings, giveaways, celebrity appearances and an educational lecture. Light refreshments will be served. The event will take place Thursday, November 5, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hospital''s Carrington Pavilion Atrium, located at 506 Sixth Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn. Call 718-780-5367 for more information and to register (required).

On Tuesday, October 6, New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) President and CEO Mark J. Mundy, Chairman of Radiology Steven Garner, M.D., and other senior New York Methodist administration officials and medical staff members officially cut the ribbon on New York Methodist Hospital''s new Outpatient Radiology Imaging Center.

From September 20 to 26, New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) will celebrate its 53 certified surgical technologists during National Surgical Technologists Week. Surgical technologists are an important part of surgical teams in hospitals across the country; when time is tight and a patient''s life is on the line, an outstanding “tech” can make all the difference.

New York Methodist Hospital’s (NYM) Institute for Cancer Care recently added one of the most advanced radiation therapy (radiotherapy) systems for the non-surgical treatment of cancerous tumors. The system, called TrueBeam, is a service of the Hospital''s Department of Radiation Oncology. It allows NYM’s oncology team to target tumors anywhere in a patient’s body, from almost any angle, with ultra-concentrated beams of cancer-killing radiation, and to do so with such precision that some patients will be able to safely undergo a full, pain-free radiotherapy session in only minutes. “

New York Methodist Hospital offers a free monthly healthy aging seminar series at Brooklyn College. This month join Keerthana Keshava, M.D., director of interventional pulmonology at New York Methodist Hospital, as she presents Just Breathe. The seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 9, 2015, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Occidental Room of the Brooklyn College Student Center.

A new device now offered at New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) is providing patients with dangerous heart conditions a less invasive treatment option for life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythms). The device is called a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (S-ICD).

New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) recently opened the NYM Medical Associates of Brooklyn Heights practice at 50 Court Street, located on the border between Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn. The new facility is built to house Hospital specialists in cardiology, internal medicine, gastroenterology, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, urology and vascular surgery.