Hospitals/Birthing Centers

Beth Israel Hospital
http://www.wehealny.org/patients/bimc_directions3.html
1st Ave at 16th St
New York, NY
212-420-2000
Beth Israel Medical Center is a 1,368-bed, full-service tertiary teaching hospital that was founded on Manhattan's Lower East Side before the turn of the 20th century.

Brooklyn Birthing Center
http://www.brooklynbirthingcenter.com/home
2183 Ocean Ave (btw. Ave R and Quentin Rd)
Brooklyn, NY 11229
718-376-6655
The only freestanding outpatient birthing center
in Brooklyn.

Lenox HIll Hospital
http://www.lenoxhillhospital.org/
100 E. 77th Street (at Lexington Ave)
New York, NY 10021
212-434-2000

Long Island College Hospital
http://www.wehealny.org/patients/lich_description.html
399 Hicks Street (Atlantic Ave at Hicks Street)
718-780-1000
LICH serves as the hub of Continuum's services in Brooklyn, is a 516-bed, teaching hospital located in the Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill section. LICH is the primary clinical teaching affiliate of the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn (SUNY-Downstate Medical Center). The LICH School of Nursing is one of the oldest nursing schools in the country. LICH still have one birthing tub for water births and is in the regular Labor and Delivery room. No more midwifery care as the Birthing Center closed down.

Lutheran HealthCare
http://www.lmcmc.com
150 55th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11220 (Bay Ridge, Sunset Park)
718-630-7000
Lutheran Family Health Centers of Lutheran HealthCare provide a high-quality and convenient health care safety net for neighborhoods throughout southwest Brooklyn. Our community health center network is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the country. With more than 90,000 active patients, our network handles more than 600,000 outpatient visits a year.

                  

Maimonides Medical Center
http://www.maimonidesmed.org
4802 Tenth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11219
718 283-6000
As a leading academic medical center, Maimonides trains more than 400 residents and medical students each year and routinely contributes to the progress of medicine through its broad base of clinical and laboratory research. The Medical Center is affiliated with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and serves as the Brooklyn center for the school. Winner of the 2007 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence

Maimonides is among the nation’s top five percent of hospitals, according to HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent health care ratings company. Due to outstanding performance, Maimonides has received this national quality award in four out of the past five years and is one of only two New York City hospitals to receive this distinction for 2007.

Mount Sinai
http://www.mountsinai.org/msh/msh-home.jsp
One Gustave Levy Place
1190 5th Ave
New York,  NY
212-241-6500
Mount Sinai is a 1,171-bed tertiary-care teaching hospital with a medical staff of nearly 1,800 physicians.
Mount Sinai's state-of-the-art facilities include the unique Guggenheim Pavilion, the first hospital designed by internationally renowned architect I.M. Pei.The Department of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai was founded in 1878, the first pediatric department within a hospital in New York City and the second in the nation.
The Kravis Children's Hospital at Mount Sinai also offers a nationally recognized Child Life Program, which offers a full range of therapeutic play activities to make the hospital experience easier, more familiar, and more comfortable for children and their families. The Department of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai encompasses every pediatric specialty and offers family-centered care

The labor and delivery was great except I was stuck in triage of labor and delivery for hours but it turned out to be okay since I was progressing well. Once I was in the maternity ward, the nurses were overworked and fatigued. My daughter hadn't eaten for a day before anyone said anything!
-Kim

New York Methodist Hospital
www.nym.org
506 6th Street (at 7th Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-780-3000
New York Methodist Hospital, a voluntary, acute-care teaching facility located in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, provides a wide variety of specialized inpatient and outpatient services. Founded in 1881, the Hospital has undergone extensive renovations in recent years. Through its membership in the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System, NYM is affiliated with the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. This affiliation assures New York Methodist's place as a quality health care provider and a first-rate institution for graduate medical education.PEDIATRIC:NYM provides a full range of pediatric services - general pediatrics, neonatal intensive care, and most of the pediatric subspecialties. The Hospital's inpatient pediatric unit has private rooms for all patients, allowing parents to stay the night with their children. a separate pediatric emergency room is staffed by pediatricians certified in emergency medicine.

New York Presbyterian-Cornell Weill Hospital
http://www.nyp.org/
525 E. 68th St (at York)
New York, NY 10021
212-746-5454

New York University Midtown
http://www.med.nyu.edu/
530 1st Avenue
New York, NY 10016

St. Luke's Roosevelt Birthing Center
http://www.nywomenshealth.com/index.html
1000 10 Avenue
New York, New York 10019
(212) 523-3348.
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, University Hospital of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, is a 1,076-bed, full-service community and tertiary care hospital. Pediatric Unit: Parents permitted 24 hours a day; one parent may room in. Check with unit charge nurse for visiting policies for children.

St. Vincents Hospital
170 W. 12th Street at 7th Ave
New York, NY 10011
212-604-7000