With the opening of the new Ambulatory Care Pavilion, Queens Hospital Center is making good on its promise to the people of southeastern and central Queens to maximize both patient convenience and positive clinical outcomes. Residents of Queens can count on the delivery of quality medical care right in their own borough. Officially open to the public in January 2007, the new $53 million, 142,000-square-foot Pavilion fully complements Queens Hospital’s commitment to patient-centered care by unifying and consolidating services previously offered throughout its sprawling campus.
Standing six stories high, the Pavilion features vibrant, welcoming exam rooms and accommodates the hospital’s primary care, pediatric, psychiatry, ophthalmology and dentistry clinics, behavioral health clinics, day programs, staff education areas, administrative offices, and the Diabetes Center of Excellence. The Pavilion is connected to the main hospital building by two large, enclosed walkways or bridges that provide easy access for patients and staff. The center will better serve an increased number of patients and expects more than 135,000 patient visits annually.
Queens Hospital’s latest addition is the most recent in a series of new building projects and renovations. In 2002 the hospital opened a state-of-the-art, 261-bed facility that includes the Queens Cancer Center, the first comprehensive cancer treatment center in the borough. To keep pace with the advanced technology that today’s patients expect and deserve, the Cancer Center introduced a new $1.5 million 64-channel CT scanner, offering the most sophisticated technology of its kind to be found in Queens. Queens Hospital purchased the scanner in response to a growing need, as requests for CAT scans have more than doubled in the last five years from 5,000 exams in 2000 to 10,400 in 2005.
Queens Hospital has made patient safety a top priority, and its efforts have not gone unnoticed. The Healthcare Association of New York State recently recognized Queens Hospital Center for its work aimed at reducing central venous catheter bloodstream infections, citing Queens Hospital as a model for other hospitals across the state. The patients of Queens Hospital Center continue to benefit from its affiliate relationship with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Learn about some of Queens Hospital Center's specialty services: AIDS Center; Level III Perinatal Center; SAFE (SART) Center; Cancer Center of Excellence; Diabetes Center of Excellence.
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