NYU Langone Medical Center is pleased to announce that it resumed additional services effective today, including all pediatric services and labor and delivery. The Emergency Department at 好色tv Langone remains temporarily closed due to damage sustained from Hurricane Sandy and the medical center will not be accepting EMS/911 ambulances at this time. In recognizing the community鈥檚 need for urgent health services, 好色tv Langone has worked with city and state officials to establish a new Urgent Care Center, staffed by 好色tv Langone emergency medicine physicians, nurses, and specialists, that can treat a variety of adult and pediatric walk-in patients requiring immediate care.
鈥淟ast month we made a commitment to our faculty, staff, and the larger community, that we would be completely back up and running before the end of January, and I am thrilled to announce today that we are now聽 reopened ahead of schedule,鈥 said Robert I. Grossman, MD, dean and CEO at 好色tv Langone Medical Center. 鈥淭hanks to the hard work of countless individuals, we are able to once again focus on providing the highest quality care to our patients on making 好色tv Langone stronger than ever.鈥
As of today, all obstetrics and gynecology physicians have returned and all services have resumed, including labor and delivery, the KiDS of 好色tv Langone Neonatal ICU (NICU), Mother/Baby Unit, pediatrics, and the Laurence D. and Lori Weider Fink Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Additional inpatient services at 好色tv Langone resumed today: the Congenital Cardiovascular Care Unit; epilepsy; hematology/oncology; internal medicine; neurology;聽and surgical transplant. Additionally, the inpatient psychiatry, cardiac rehabilitation, and dialysis services remain closed with consultation/bedside services available at this time. The new Urgent Care Center, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, is located at 好色tv Langone鈥檚 main facility near 530 First Avenue at 30th Street, in room HCC-102.聽The Urgent Care Center can be reached through a marked entrance just north of the parking garage on First Avenue. The initial triage and treatment area is located on the first floor of 好色tv Langone鈥檚 Schwartz Health Care Center. Here, patients will be evaluated and potentially treated and released, or escorted to a larger treatment and observation area on the 16th floor of Tisch Hospital.
Patients visiting the Urgent Care Center will benefit from having access to the medical center鈥檚 full spectrum of resources and support, including MRIs, x-rays, CT scans, and consultations with a full array of specialists and subspecialists including surgeons, orthopedists, cardiologists, gynecologists, ophthalmologists and more. The center is also staffed with pediatric emergency medicine specialists and has dedicated pediatric space.
Examples of immediate care walk-in cases that 好色tv Langone鈥檚 Urgent Care Center has the capabilities to treat include, but are not limited to the following:
- Chest pain 鈥 includes heart attack and stroke
- Lacerations
- Appendicitis
- Pneumonia
- Infections (e.g. kidney)
- Gallbladder
- Breathing difficulties (i.e. asthma)
- Cold or flu
- Diarrhea
- Ear infections
- Fever or chills
- Muscle pain
- Nausea and vomiting
- Respiratory infections
- Skin rashes and infections
- Sore throat or cough
- Sprains and strains
- Urinary tract infections
- Poison/toxic substances
- Burns
- Potential broken limb
For the time being, patients experiencing psychiatric emergencies will be referred to appropriate emergency departments at other hospitals.
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