BY JESSICA PARKS
Coney Island Hospital will
take on a new name next summer
honoring the late southern
Brooklynite who rose to
serve on the highest court in
the land.
NYC Health and Hospitals
announced on July 30 that Coney
Island Hospital, actually
in Sheepshead Bay, will be renamed
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Hospital in honor of the US Supreme
Court justice from Midwood
and that the surrounding
campus will be dubbed
South Brooklyn Health.
Hospital administrators
say the renaming of the campus
is meant to refl ect its extensive
reach in the borough’s
southern hemisphere, not just
in the People’s Playground.
“Although located adjacent
to the neighborhood of Coney
Island, our medical center is
the closest comprehensive facility
for approximately 875,000
New Yorkers who reside in
South Brooklyn and beyond,”
said Svetlana Lipyanskaya, the
hospital’s chief executive offi -
cer. “With today’s announcement,
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we are proud to acknowledge
our closest neighbors and
welcome through our doors
the broader communities for
whom we provide care and ultimately
hope to serve.”
The nod to Bader Ginsburg
is also symbolic of the system’s
service, said President
and CEO Mitchell Katz.
“Justice Ginsburg fought
tirelessly for justice and
equality, giving voices to the
voiceless, and as patients walk
into the Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Hospital at NYC Health + Hospitals/
South Brooklyn Health,
they will do so knowing they
will receive high quality
health services with compassion,
dignity, and respect, regardless
of their income, gender
identity, or immigration
status,” he said. “We are grateful
that the family of Ruth
Bader Ginsburg has allowed
us to honor her memory in
this historic way.”
The dual-renaming will
go into effect in summer 2022
when the hospital administration
expects to open a new
fl ood-resilient, 11-story hospital
building constructed as
part of a $922.7 million federal
emergency grant awarded to
the hospital in 2014 after it suffered
severe damage from Superstorm
Sandy.
The new tower and an existing
tower currently serving
as the hospital’s main building
will be joined during construction
and together serve
as the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Hospital.
To fortify against fl ooding,
the new hospital building
at 2619 Ocean Parkway
will house medical services
above the 500-year fl oodplain,
A rendering of Coney Island Hospital’s newes building, set to open next
summer and coincide with the name change. NYC Health + Hospitals
beginning with the emergency
department on the second
fl oor, which will feature
an ambulance dock and a vehicular
ramp connecting to
the ground fl oor, set to house
a fl ood-proof lobby.
The upper levels will host
inpatient services transferred
from the soon-to-be-demolished
Hammett Pavilion. The
most crucial services will be
situated on the building’s top
fl oors in order to still be operational
in the event of fl ooding,
the hospital’s Senior Director
of Facilities Dan Collins previously
told Brooklyn Paper.
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