New York Methodist Hospital

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"New York Methodist Hospital has called Park Slope its home for over 130 years," said Mark J. Mundy, president and CEO of NYM. "We were founded in response to concerns about a lack of hospitals in our borough. As Brooklyn evolved, and medicine evolved, New York Methodist Hospital evolved as well.

New York Methodist Hospital (NYM), a voluntary, acute-care teaching facility located in Brooklyn’s Park Slope, houses 651 inpatient beds (including bassinets) and provides services to about 40,000 inpatients each year. In addition, approximately 500,000 outpatient visits and services are logged annually. The Hospital, founded in 1881, has undergone extensive renovation and modernization over the years.

Although medical ultrasound technology has been in use for over 60 years, it is only within the last decade that technological advances have allowed ultrasound examinations to be utilized in point-of-care (the location where patient care occurs) and emergency situations. Point-of-care ultrasound allows a doctor to get fast, accurate answers to many of the urgent questions that may arise in an emergency.

The Hospital has been a neighborhood institution since 1881 and its current buildings, ranging from four to nine stories, were built in the years between 1924 and 2006. Through the community review process, the building was shaped to focus bulk and height on Sixth Street—opposite the existing Hospital buildings—and to have multiple setbacks and a lower height on both Eighth Avenue and Fifth Street.

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