Jacobi Medical Center
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Jacobi Medical Center is a municipal hospital located in the Morris Park section of the Bronx, New York located at 1400 Pelham Parkway South. Founded in 1955 as Bronx Municipal Hospital, Jacobi Medical Center provides health care for some 1.2 million Bronx and New York area residents. It is a University Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is part of the North Bronx Health Network. Jacobi was named in honor of Dr. Abraham Jacobi, who is considered to be the father of American pediatrics[1].
Jacobi Medical Center is a Level I Trauma Center and is the regional hyperbaric center and regional snakebite center for the New York Tristate area. It also operates the only burn unit in the Bronx, the second largest in New York City. It also operates a Level III Neonatal ICU, a a women’s health center, an outpatient center for adult AIDS patients[2].
It is the only Level I pediatric trauma center in the Bronx and one of the busiest trauma centers in New York State. Forty thousand children under the age of 18 years are cared for each year in our department. Patient care is provided by residents from the Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine under the supervision of pediatric emergency medicine faculty.
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