Gentrifying Moms Opt for Manhattan Hospitals
Brooklyn may have been attracting an increasingly affluent set of young adults in recent years but, according to stats dug up by The Times, many of them are returning to Manhattan when it comes time to give birth. While hospitals in Brownstone Brooklyn have lost local patients at a rapid rate, the four most prominent…
Brooklyn may have been attracting an increasingly affluent set of young adults in recent years but, according to stats dug up by The Times, many of them are returning to Manhattan when it comes time to give birth. While hospitals in Brownstone Brooklyn have lost local patients at a rapid rate, the four most prominent Manhattan hospitals saw the number of births rise 31 percent between 1998 and 2008. Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud of living in Brooklyn, said Dumbo resident Nicole Reece. “[But] Manhattan has some of the best doctors in the country. I live 25 to 45 minutes away from them. Why would I not choose them? Interestingly, while the number of births at Methodist Hospital in Park Slope rose 40 percent over ten years, the number of births to mothers who live in Park Slope, Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens actually fell. The same pattern is also evident in Fort Greene, where only 16 local mothers crossed the river to give birth in 1998 but by 2008 that number was up more than tenfold to 169. While we suspect the phenomenon has something to do with people sticking with their Manhattan doctors in general when they move to Brooklyn, it also says something about the quality of care. The one serious experience that our family had in a Brooklyn hospital revealed such appalling (and almost deadly) levels of incompetence that we now avoid them at all costs. So let’s take a poll:
Manhattan Birth Certificate, Brooklyn Address [NY Times]
Brooklyn Moms Won’t Give Birth in Brooklyn Hospitals [Gothamist]
Graphic from The New York Times
this shouldnt even be an issue
when it comes to quality ANYTHING it’s always, and will always be
manhattan > queens > brooklyn > staten island > bronx. duh
*rob*
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Honestly rob, can you for once, just shut up? This thread is about giving birth, something you have no experience with
wow. last time i checked, im pretty sure a woman shat me out 33 years ago. so i do have experience with it.
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most nurses are “ghetto”. What the hell does that mean?
rude, incompetent, obese and on their cell phones more than they are working.
*rob*
Us Clinton Hillers had both of our kids at LICH. Both went fine though its absolutely true that the post partum care was pretty bad and the nurses had no interest in breast feeding.
People do what they do for quality and convenience. My OB is in Manhattan because it’s close to work and my OB’s office is linked to NYU. It’s not like I’d have a lot of choice to go anywhere but NYU unless I left my doctor.
The inconvenience of having to go BACK to Brooklyn from my office every time I have an appointment is enough to guarantee that I will stay with my doctor in Manhattan.
The article is a little misleading. Unless they mean women who move to Brooklyn and are unemployed/employed in Brooklyn still go to Manhattan for care…that’d be something else. But most people go to the doctor close to where they work, not close to where they live.
Mean’s they won’t take rob’s shit, lol.
Honestly rob, can you for once, just shut up? This thread is about giving birth, something you have no experience with, the results of which you despise.
If someone had great nurses, then they had great nurses. Who are you to call them a liar? You say you’ve only been to a NYC hospital a few times, yet most nurses are “ghetto”. What the hell does that mean?
I had my first baby, in 2001, at the Elizabeth Seton Center, one of the only freestanding birthing centers in the city. It was affiliated to St. Vincent’s Hospital. A very nice experience, even with 29 hours of labor.
I had my second, in 2005, right here at home in Clinton Hill. I had been planning to go to the Brooklyn Birthing Center, in Midwood (which is where I had all my prenatal care), and even rented a car in anticipation (and to avoid having to take the Q). However, our son was a week late, I went into labor while driving on the BQE to pick up my dad at JFK, and barely made it back home in time. My husband delivered the baby, and the midwife arrived half an hour later to check him out. I had a shower, and joined everyone in the living room for wine and cheese.
I had our third in 2009, at St. Vincent’s Hospital again, this time with Maureen Rayson, a great midwife. I was heading in to work for my last day, and my water broke on the A train at West 4th St (no one noticed), so I sloshed upstairs and hailed a cab to St. Vincent’s. Eight hours later we had a baby girl.
I gave birth to my first daughter at LICH and it was fine, not great, but fine. My labor & delivery nurses were incredible, the post partum nurses were not great. I would have delivered my 2nd at LICH as well but my doctor moved to Manhattan so I followed her. I had an AMAZING experience at NY Downtown with my son and it’s right over the bridge..
nurses in general are actually some of the most VILE people that exist!
yes, i hate nurses so im a bit biased with my opinion
*rob*