Hospitals


Throughout the neighborhoods that we focused on for this project, the medical institutions are instrumental to the development of civility and cooperation between the many different ethnicities that comprise their respective populations. However, these four neighborhoods achieve this very differently from one another. In Flushing, the hospitals developed community health outreach programs, targeting different age groups. These programs attract people of different races to work toward similar goals, simultaneously improving general population health. In Bensonhurst, many private practices operated by medical practitioners from all across the ethnic spectrum treat all members of the population, while the Maimonides Medical Center functions as Brooklyn’s multicultural hub of medical treatment. And Elmhurst Hospital, the only hospital in close proximity for Jackson Heights’ residents, is notorious for being an overcrowded hospital. Providing primary, secondary, and tertiary medical care for the one million residents of western Queens, Elmhurst Hospital is bound to become congested with patient; the main dilemma at hand. And finally, Chinatown has several different medical centers from The Charles B. Wang Center and small cultural medical stores, to outside Chinatown, the New York Downtown Hospital. All of these institutions provide care to the members of Chinatown and constantly reach out to the community to provide aid.

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