Metropolitan Hospital Center

Metropolitan Hospital Center
MHC Entrance
Geography
Location	19-01 First Avenue, New York City, NY, United States
Organization
Hospital type	Community
History
Founded	1875
Links
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Metropolitan Hospital Center was founded in 1875 in Manhattan. Metropolitan is located in an area where East Harlem merges with the Upper East Side and Yorkville. The physical plant extends from First to Second Avenues and from East 97th to East 99th Streets. The hospital caters to a wide spectra of patient population and disease pathology. Metropolitan Hospital Center has been affiliated with New York Medical College, representing the oldest American partnership between a hospital and a private medical school in the United States. Today, Metropolitan Hospital is a full-service, acute care hospital emphasizing primary care medicine. In March 2006, Metropolitan Hospital Center was the first hospital in East Harlem to be designated by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) as an official Stroke Center. Metropolitan prides itself on delivering culturally-sensitive medical care to the diverse neighborhoods of northern Manhattan. The hospital scored 97 percent for appropriate care in heart failure cases, 96 percent for heart attack care and 94 percent for surgical infection prevention, an HHC corporate initiative.

Training

Metropolitan Hospital Center is home to one of the best Residency Training Programs in the city. Affiliation with the New York Medical College, affords access to the highest quality advanced medicine facilities, with world class faculty and staff. Additional training in world class hospitals (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Westchester Medical Center, etc.) forms a perfect blend of medical training between the heavy patient exposure and excellent academic training in the various subspecialities.

INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY Program

The three-year Categorical Medicine Residency Program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). It is designed to provide a variety of clinical and didactic experiences that will prepare the trainee for board certification in Internal Medicine and a career as a practicing internist. The residency program has 60 residents including two chief residents. The 3rd and 4th year medical students from New York Medical College rotate for their clinical clerkship at Metropolitan Hospital Center. About 20-30% of the residents go into fellowships. Metropolitan Hospital center has one of the best geriatric facility in the New York City.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE RESIDENCY program

The Emergency Department at Metropolitan Hospital Center (MHC) is the primary site for EM residents of New York Medical College.It is a state of the art integrated service that provides emergent, urgent, acute and sub-acute medical and psychiatric care for adults, infants and children. Between 65,000 and 70,000 patients are registered annually including adult, pediatric, and psychiatric patients. Approximately 15% of these patients are admitted to an in-patient unit accounting for 90% of the hospital's in-patients and 95% of all critical care admissions.

SURGICAL RESIDENCY Program

The program is affiliated with New York Medical college and the residents rotate through both the hospitals. With surgical clinics that run 5 days per week, residents at Metropolitan Hospital can truly follow patient progress from the pre- to post- operative phases, which affords an experience that is rich in continuity of care.

other Residency programs

DERMATOLOGY

PEDIATRICS

OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

PSYCHIATRY

PODIATRY

Fellowships Offered in Medicine

NEPHROLOGY

GASTROENTEROLOGY

PULMONARY and CRITICAL CARE

HEMATOLOGY and ONCOLOGY

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

External links

• http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/html/facilities/metropolitan.shtml
• http://www.nymc.edu/metres/index.htm
• www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/html/facilities/metropolitan.shtml