St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center

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St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center is a 1,076-bed, full-service community and tertiary care hospital serving New York City’s Midtown West, Upper West Side and parts of Harlem.

It is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System through the hospital's affiliation with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and is an academic center with a wide range of residencies and fellowships.

The hospital center is the result of a 1979 merger of three hospitals: St. Luke's Hospital, founded in 1846, Woman's Hospital, established in 1855 for the "treatment of diseases peculiar to women" and Roosevelt Hospital, founded in 1871. Currently the Center has two separate facilities, each located at opposite ends of the Upper West Side.

St Luke’s Hospital and the adjacent Woman's Hospital are located on Amsterdam Avenue and 114th Street. Originally built in 1846, it has subsequently undergone multiple renovations and additions, now covering nearly two city blocks. It is across the street, to the east, from Columbia University’s campus and to the South it is flanked by the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.

Roosevelt Hospital is located on 10th Avenue and 59th Street, two blocks west of Columbus Circle. The current facility is a relatively new building, erected in 1993. It was built adjacent to the old hospital site, which has since been replaced with condominium towers. The Emergency Departments at both sites, staffed by 34 physicians board certified in emergency medicine, offer 24-hr specialized services for victims of sexual assaults. Both New York City Emergency Rooms have a 24-hour stroke team and Heart Attack (MI) Team. The St. Luke's Emergency Room has a 24-hour on-call cardiac catheterization lab for patients having heart attacks to immediately open up the clogged artery. The Emergency Department hosts a residency in Emergency Medicine with 42 physicians; a fellowship in international health lead by Drs John Cahill and Ramona Sunderwirth and affiliated with the Columbia School of Public Health; and a fellowship in emergency ultrasound. The Department is one of the few in the world to have three board certified Clinical Toxicologists available for consultation 24 hours. Physicians in the Department are frequently featured on the major local and national television network news programs discussing medical issues affecting the community.

Roosevelt Emergency Room is notable for being the site of John Lennon's death.

St. Luke's-Roosevelt sponsors 30 accredited residency training programs in every possible field of medicine. The Department of Medicine trains 158 residents and an additional 39 fellows; one of the largest programs in New York State and in the top 10 largest nationally. Each program enjoys full accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the institution itself is accredited for the maximum 5 year cycle. The Internal Medicine Training Program is one of the most progressive programs in the country utilizing unique strategies to insure that residents can learn from every patient. These innovations include a "drip system" for distributing admissions and no overnight call anywhere in the training program. In addition, the department limits the number of patients that can be carried by an intern to no more than 11. 83% of the programs in NY, NJ and all of New England still allow interns to carry 12 patients. The program also has its own "Simulation Lab" for training residents and the Program Director, Dr. Ethan Fried is the principal investigator for the New York State Near Miss Registry which is sponsored by the New York State Department of Health as a risk free, anonymous reporting system to record near miss medical errors and the barriers that kept these errors from reaching patients.

Richard F. Daines, M.D., the former President and CEO of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center has recently been appointed New York State Commissioner of Health by ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer.

Frank Cracolici is the President and CEO of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.