Jacobi Medical Center - Present

Present

Jacobi Medical Center provides health care for some 1.2 million Bronx and New York area residents. Jacobi Medical Center is one of the 11 acute care hospitals of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and a partner in the North Bronx Healthcare Network with the North Central Bronx Hospital. The patient population at Jacobi Medical Center ranges from Hispanics and African Americans to immigrants from Albania, Macedonia, Guyana, Jamaica, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, China, and the local Italian Americans from the Morris Park area.

It offers a complete range of acute, specialty, general and psychiatric services. Jacobi also operates community-based health care centers that provide general adult and pediatric examinations and health screenings for a variety of concerns, including hypertension, diabetes, breast cancer and prostate cancer.

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, with 30 years of clinical research and teaching experience, pioneering in early surgical intervention to preserve skin and minimize infection and injury.

It also operates a Level III Neonatal ICU, a women’s health center, an outpatient center for adult AIDS patients . It is a referral center for acute psychiatry, burn care, neonatology, infectious disease, chest medicine, tropical medicine, rehabilitation and home care.

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.

Jacobi Medical Center is one of the foremost medical teaching centers in New York City, focusing on patient care, research, and education. It sponsors approved residency and fellowship training programs in more than 40 specialties and subspecialties, and is a major academic affiliate and teaching site of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Also multiple clinical researches are conducted at Jacobi, for example Reduction of Cardiovascular events in obese patients using a new Class of drugs, AIM High - Niacin added to a Statin to prevent Vascular events, TREAT - Evaluation of Aranesp to reduce Cardiovascular events in patients with Renal Disease, VirXsys- The first Phase 2 trial exploring the use of gene therapy to treat HIV infected patients, ACCORD Study-A new national study sponsored by the NIH for the treatment of Diabetes, MISO- Use of Misoprostol Vaginal Inserts for cervical ripening and induction of labor and many other researches aimed to improve the quality of care provided at Jacobi.

Jacobi Medical Center is HHC's "pilot" site for adaptation of latest upgrades on electronic patient management system to create a computerized patient record. North Bronx Healthcare Network was awarded Hospitals and Health Networks' Most Wired Award four consecutive years for its use of information technology in safety, quality, customer service, business processes and workforce training.

In 2005 and on the eve of its 50th anniversary, Jacobi Medical Center opened a new 344 bed tertiary care facility, representing a skillful blend of comfort, privacy, ambience and the latest in medical technology.

A state of the art Ambulatory Care Center designed by the renowned architect Ian Bader opened in the summer of 2008.

Jacobi Medical Center is home to FDNY-EMS Battalion 20, formerly NYC*EMS Station 23.

As of April 4, 2011, the nursing staff facility wide will be changing to a single uniform, color teal, to reflect the professionalism of the nursing staff and provide better recognition for patients and visitors. PCAs (Patient Care Aides) will switch to royal blue.