The Brooklyn Hospital Center’s modernization plan will guarantee independent, full-service, community-focused care well into the future, and will create equitable and inclusive opportunity for Brooklyn’s surrounding neighborhoods. Because when The Brooklyn Hospital Center is at its strongest, so is our community.
Brooklyn’s oldest hospital has been keeping the community healthy for nearly 175 years.
Now, a plan to modernize The Brooklyn Hospital Center will ensure it remains operational and independent well into the future.
What does that look like? A state-of-the-art, over 800,000 square-foot campus programmed to meet the community’s unique healthcare needs.
The value that independent, full-service, community-focused care brings to neighborhoods is second-to-none. That’s why improvements to The Brooklyn Hospital Center will be tailored to the community’s health, wellness, and equity needs. The plan will:
- Support Maternity Health with the addition of expanded birthing, post-partum care and breast care centers
- Increase Brooklyn’s access to specialty care with a new cancer center, ambulatory surgery facility, and outpatient diagnostic center.
- Prioritize health and wellness services with an expanded emergency room, maternity ward, cardiac center and breast cancer center facilities.
As the plan for The Brooklyn Hospital Center advances, it will create equitable and inclusive opportunity right here in Brooklyn and ensure that quality, independent healthcare remains a vital component of justice and equity in our communities.
The modernization plan will generate billions of dollars in economic activity during construction, create hundreds of high-paying, quality jobs and nearly one thousand units of permanently affordable housing to create new housing opportunities for hospital staff, minimum wage-earners, and our Brooklyn neighbors.