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Fort Greene’s Brooklyn Hospital Center is hoping proximity to condos like One Hanson Place and the Oro will help keep it in business. The 464-bed hospital, which emerged from bankruptcy in September, wants to increase its patient base by luring the area’s affluent new residents; to help achieve that goal, it’s putting $40 million into capital improvements and is going to start focusing on new programs like cardiac services, weight management, and back pain. And while the hospital wants to convince deep-pocketed newcomers that its services are up to snuff, it’s also being called on to not abandon its its Medicaid and Medicare patients, who currently make up 80% of the hospital’s patient base. Think it can do both and turn a profit?
After Bankruptcy, a Hospital in Brooklyn Looks To Rebuild [NY Sun]
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  1. Having had bad ER experiences recently both at this hospital and (serving a very different constituency) St. Luke’s Roosevelt, I have to conclude that the ER experience inherently sucks regardless of where you go and therefore it doesn’t serve as an effective measure of a hospital.
    That said, my impression of this place was that it could use some help.
    Re: The concern of disenfranchising needier populations – it’s a reasonable concern but also just another example of a broken system being asked to fill the gap our elected leaders don’t have the wherewithal to address.

  2. I will preface my comments with the realization that this is a real estate blog, but if you look at the comments on this thread, the consistent theme is that people have been dissatisfied with their ER experience. This is true of just about every ER. Don’t think that the ERs in Manhattan are some amazing panacea, where every patient is seen right away, and the best food is served, and all the staff is polite and friendly. This problem stems to a very large extent from ER overcrowding, which is a nation-wide problem, and stems from patients who are admitted not having a bed in the hospital. They then have to stay in the ER, and so the poor guy waiting in the waiting room isn’t brought in, because there is no place to put him!

  3. Re gentrifying FG and CH won’t help the hospital. As others have pointed out, park slope’s current and consistent gentry have not made methodist worth visiting. I’ve been through their emergency room (at least 5 hrs over night) and several follow up clinic visits. The doctors were mostly decent though overworked, but all the other staff were horrendous. I think it is associated with Cornell for at least some specialties. The place is still filthy and poorly run. The new remodel makes it even harder to get to the ER where you will not find any park slope residents. If in need, get a car over the bridge.

  4. I find Maimonides to be okay but even the hospitals in the city leave much to be desired. The bed side manor of medical professionals just isn’t the same as in the good olde days. If I here another nurse suck her teeth and roll her eyes because she was asked to do what she gets paid for or a doctor refer to a patient as the “bi-lateral inguinal hernia” instead their name or a dietary aide ask me a question in a language other than English and look at me like I was stupid because I didn’t understand….

  5. Closet racist? Blow it out yer ass. There is nothing racist about getting Lindsey and Brittany the rehab services they so desperately need, all in a discreet, beautiful, and profitable location in Ft. Greene. Go get your stomach stapled–you’ll feel better about yourself, and you’ll take up less space on the sidewalk.

  6. I agree with the poster who criticized Methodist. I went there after being mugged and waited over four hours to be seen. At one point, a doctor shined a light in my eye for five seconds (literally) and then charged my insurance company $495 for this “service”.

    If you want a decent hospital, go to LICH or St. Vincent’s in Manhattan.

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