Women’s Health Screenings; Radiology
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Saint John’s Episcopal
QUEENS WEEKLY, OCTOBER 6, 2019
Hospital (SJEH) has made
great strides in women’s
health screenings and
radiology, thanks to new hospital
leadership combined with
renovations and advanced
technology.
SJEH became the sole hospital
in the Rockaways following
Peninsula Hospital’s closure in
2012. Hospital administration
and staff have worked to provide
the best in women’s health
in an area with some of the
highest breast cancer levels in
the borough.
According to Michael Luyckx,
Administrative Director of
Imaging Services, the hospital
is outfitted with state-of-the-art
equipment in the mammography,
obstetrics and gynecology,
and ultrasound departments.
Luyckx said that SJEH performs
approximately 4,217 mammograms
using all digital technology
by General Electric. Digital
mammograms offer several benefits
including clearer images, less
levels of radiation and electronically
store images allowing for
more close up views. The better
quality images allows for an earlier
detection of breast cancer.
“It’s key to pick up breast cancer
in the earliest stages,” Luyckx
said.
Planning has begun for the
construction of a new women’s
comprehensive health center on
105th Street. The hospital was
awarded a $3,117,930 grant by the
New York State Department of
Health (NYS DOH) go toward the
health center.
Future services will
include:
• Routine and sub-specialty
gynecological and obstetrical
services
• Maternal fetal medicine
for complicated or high-risk
pregnancies
• Urogynecologic
• Cancer screening
• Breast surgery
• Behavioral health
• Nutrition service
• Ultrasound, mammography,
bone density provided with onsite
lab services
In addition to top-of-the-line
women’s health screenings,
SJEH also offers radiology imaging.
In the updated emergency
department is an advanced
computerized tomography (CT)
scanner and state-of-the-art x-
Ray equipment.
Luyckx said the hospital’s
64-slice CT scanner allows
for “extremely fast” imaging
— anywhere from 45 to 60 seconds.
SJEH can use the scanner
for cardiac imaging including a
coronary CT calcium scan and
coronary angiography.
A benefit to having the CT
scanner in the emergency department
is expedited care. The
accessibility of this machine is
important because every second
counts in an emergency
situation.
SJEH was also awarded a
$3,955,000 grant by the NYS
DOH for a new radiation and
oncology center that will be
built across the street from the
hospital’s main entrance. The
3,850 square foot center will
have exam rooms, consultation
rooms, patient dressing rooms
and more.
The new center will also include
the Rockaways’ only linear
accelerator — a machine
that customizes high energy
x-rays or electrons to conform
to a tumor’s shape and destroys
cancer cells while sparing surrounding
normal tissue.
Left to Right: Michael Luyckx, Director of Imaging, Cardiology and
Transport; Michelle Burchette, Lead Mammography Technologist; Dr.
Michael Tartell, Chairman of Imaging.
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