On Monday, August 21, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital opened the doors of a new pediatric practice site at 621 Degraw Street. The space is replacing the Hospital’s shuttered pediatric practice at One Prospect Park West.

NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) recently unveiled a state-of-the-art mobile testing unit in a push to reduce blindness-causing eye diseases across the city. The unit, called The Tele-Ophthalmology Unit, is the first of its kind in the country, targeting communities where residents are most vulnerable to four major sight-threatening conditions: glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.

Dr. Anthony Hollenberg, a leading physician-scientist specializing in endocrinology, has been appointed chairman of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, effective February 1.

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center’s Emergency Department (ED) Telehealth Express Care Service has won the 2017 Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award for its use of telemedicine to evaluate ED patients and dramatically decrease time spent in the ED, while maintaining a high degree of patient safety and satisfaction.

Since its first U.S. use in 2002, NewYork-Presbyterian has helped pave the way for the advancement of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for cardiac patients who are in need of a new heart valve, but are not candidates for open-heart surgery.

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center celebrated the opening of the Mary Kathryn and Alex Navab Cardiothoracic Robotic Surgery Center on Wednesday, Oct. 25, making the hospital one of the first in the nation to offer a dedicated robotic cardiothoracic surgical suite for minimally invasive heart, lung and esophagus procedures.

As part of the hospital’s ongoing commitment to provide medical aid to Puerto Rico, NewYork-Presbyterian is deploying a second Disaster Response Team to the island today, October 24. The team is part of a group of 78 healthcare professionals from the New York area, who are part of the deployment being coordinated by the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA).

NewYork-Presbyterian held a dedication ceremony today to celebrate the renaming of The Spine Hospital to the Daniel and Jane Och Spine Hospital at NewYork-Presbyterian, in recognition of the visionary $25 million gift by longtime supporters Daniel and Jane Och.