Bethpage Best of the City Honors Three Bethpage Best of the City 2020 winners are being spotlighted as healthcare heroes
for their efforts during the COVID-19 crisis: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical
Center, which took home the award for Best Hospital, Mount Sinai West, winner of Best
Maternity Ward, and CityMD Urgent Care, winner of Best Urgent Care.
Over the next few weeks amNY Metro will be focusing more closely on these Healthcare
Heroes and how they’ve touched lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, and beyond.
BEST HOSPITAL
This year’s winner for Bethpage Best
of the City’s Best Hospital is NewYork-
Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical
Center. The hospital has proven time and
time again that they provide top-notch care
for those in need, regardless of the reason
that brings them to the facility in the first
place.
The staff at NewYork-Presbyterian/
Weill Cornell Medical Center worked
tirelessly to ensure the safety of patients
and staff during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Their doctors and nurses are committed
to keeping the hospital safe by adhering to
precautions that were put in place as a result
of the pandemic.
The hospital worked to create a reliable
diagnostic testing program to identify
patients and healthcare workers who had
been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that
causes COVID-19, as the pandemic was at
its height. The new range of tests was able to
accurately diagnose the coronavirus, while
simultaneously expanding the operations and
hours of pathology laboratories to handle an
influx of patient samples.
Since the program launched on March 11,
the laboratories analyzed 300 clinical samples
a day, in addition to conducting non-COVID
related tests. Around seven weeks later, those
same laboratories can process up to 2,000
COVID samples daily and have since become
operational 24 hours a day.
The staff at NewYork-Presbyterian/
Weill Cornell Medical Center has taken
immense care of their COVID-19 patients,
with many doctors and nurses putting their
personal plans on hold in order to fight
coronavirus. Even doctors and nurses who
were exposed to and came down with the
disease focused on healing so they could
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get back on the front lines to help as many
patients as they could. The unbelievable
staff at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill
Cornell Medical Center came together for
over 150 days to test, treat and care for
patients that were exposed to COVID-19
with the warmth and courage to get
through this troubling time.
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
Medical Center is located at 525 E 68th Street.
The hospital can be reached at 212-746-
5454 or you can visit www.nyp.org for more
information.
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