News Archive '10

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — The Brooklyn Hospital Center’s (TBHC) Stroke Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With the Guidelines Stroke Silver Plus Performance Achievement Award. The award recognizes TBHC’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations. Read more >

The Department of Family Medicine at The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) has joined forces with the community to combat diabetes, a chronic disabling condition, that is epidemic in the borough. Read more >

BROOKLYN, NY--The Brooklyn Hospital Center Community Advisory Board (TBHCCAB) will hold its annual public meeting on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 fr Read more >

After a winter spent bulking up on television and comfort food, the arrival of spring has many couch potatoes ready to reform and get into shape. To make sure good intentions don’t end up in injuries, Anders Cohen, M.D., Chief of Neurosurgery and Spine Surgery at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, offers tips for weekend warriors who don’t want to end up flat on their backs.” “Six-pack abs are not just for looks,” says Dr. Cohen, who was a professional tennis player before he became a neurosurgeon, and has been a sports junkie since the age of seven. “Strong abdominal muscles support the lower back and spine and prevent injuries.  When muscles get lax, people get injured.” Read more >

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BROOKLYN, NY-- The La Providencia Family Medicine Center, a community health center operate Read more >

The New York metropolitan area, particularly those neighborhoods served by The Brooklyn Hospital Center, has the second largest population of Haitians in America. So when a 7.3 earthquake struck Haiti this January, the reverberations were felt here strongly. As a recent poll indicated, three-fifths of all Haitian Americans had either lost a loved one or had a loved one that had been injured or made homeless by the tragedy.    Read more >

BROOKLYN, NY –The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) has launched The Journal of Health Sciences, a peer-reviewe Read more >

Brooklyn, NY-- The Kiwanis Club of Bedford Stuyvesant and The Brooklyn Hospital Center to offer free glucose, blood pressure, cholesterol screenings and giveaways at family hea Read more >

BROOKLYN, NY -- Patricia A. Winston, R.N., M.S. has been named Chief Nurse Officer (CNO) at The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) in an announcement by Richard B. Read more >

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