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Patients benefit from continued improvements
at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in the Rockaways
Jerry Walsh, CEO, with new state-of-the-art CT scanner Photos courtesy of St. John’s Episcopal Hospital
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As patients and visitors
enter St. John’s
Episcopal Hospital
(SJEH)—the sole
hospital of the
Rockaways—it quickly
becomes apparent that
much is happening at
the facility.
The main entrance
leads to a lobby that
features a new outpatient
pharmacy and an
aroma of coffee from
the hospital’s new
café that serves select
Starbucks beverages,
food, and gift items.
The liveliness and
action of the hospital
stretches beyond the
lobby to the emergency
department where
new rooms and stateof
the-art equipment
make apparent SJEH’s
renewed commitment
to providing quality
service to the residents
of its surrounding
communities.
Constructed in 1950,
the emergency department
was initially
designed to treat 15,000
patients per year, but
currently serves more
than 40,000. Much
of the increase could
be attributed to the
closing of Peninsula
Hospital in 2012. The
emergency department
project is in its final
phase, and at completion,
will have expanded
from 12,500 square
feet to 22,000 square
feet. New to the department
is an advanced
computerized tomography
(CT) scanner
and top-of-the-line
x-Ray equipment.
“As we expand and
improve our physical
environment, we
are diligent in our
efforts to offer patients
care using modern,
advanced equipment to
allow us to prevent and
diagnose illness in the
most efficient manner,”
said Donald Morrish,
MD, Chief Medical
Officer.
SJEH is currently
managing approximately
$30 million in
grant funding, which
is helping fund current
and planned renovation
and expansion
projects. This includes
the renovation of the
hospital’s labor, delivery,
and maternity unit,
and the construction of
a Radiation Oncology
Center and a Women’s
Comprehensive Health
Center. The grants were
awarded by the New
York State Department
of Health, the G.A.
Ackermann Memorial
Fund, and the New
York City Council
through the offices
of Queens Borough
President Melinda
Katz and City Council
Member Donovan
Richards whose collective
$4,077,000 in funding
will go towards the
labor and delivery unit
renovation.
SJEH is also constructing
a 4-story
teaching/clinical services
center in partnership
with Ross
University who contributed
$10 million to
the project.
“Not only are we
enhancing our clinical
services at the
hospital, we are also
invested in growing
our footprint outside
of the hospital’s walls
to meet the medical
needs of the communities
we serve,” said
the hospital’s Chief
Executive Officer,
Jerry Walsh. “Our
patients and community
members deserve
great medical care
close to home, and we
are intent on meeting
and exceeding expectations.”
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