NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx, better known as North Central Bronx Hospital, is a municipal hospital founded in 1976 and operated by

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. The 17 story

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building is located next to the

Montefiore Medical Center Montefiore Medical Center is a premier academic medical center and the primary teaching hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York City. Its main campus, the Henry and Lucy Moses Division, is located in the Norwoo ...

in the Norwood neighborhood of

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. North Central Bronx Hospital is one of the 11 acute care hospitals of the

corporation. The hospital is a partner in the North Bronx Healthcare Network along with the

Jacobi Medical Center Jacobi Medical Center (NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi) is a municipal hospital operated by NYC Health + Hospitals in affiliation with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The facility is located in the Morris Park neighborhood of the Bronx, Ne ...

. The hospital has an educational affiliation with

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History

The $100 million Brutalist architecture facility opened on October 25, 1976. A $12.5 million a year contract with nearby Montefiore Medical Center to provide some medical services was in place at the time. In 1977 the hospital began a birth center program that includes

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. The birth center was renovated in 2013 and re-opened in 2014. In 2020, the 215 bed hospital began a rapid expansion of 120 additional

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(ICU) beds to assist the hospital's response to the

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. The first 20 of the additional beds were opened as a COVID-19 specific ICU on May 5, 2020. North Central Bronx Hospital IMG 3400 HLG

References

External links

nycservice.org

ProPublica web page on North Central Bronx Hospitals' emergency room
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