Flushing Medical Institutions

Flushing Hospital Medical Center

4500 Parsons Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11355

Flushing Medical Center is a non-profit teaching hospital. It was founded in 1884 by a group of women, and they started out by setting up a room with one bed in a rented house. And over the years, the hospital has grown into a 293-bed voluntary teaching hospital, and has treated over 80,000 patients. With Flushing’s diverse populations, it develops language translational services for the convenience of all its patients, including Chinese, English, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Polish and more. The availability of translation services allow the patients to describe their discomfort and pain in their native language, providing doctors with chances to make better diagnosis. In addition, Flushing Hospital Medical Center has community health outreach and volunteer opportunities for people in the community. These activities and multilingual services bring the community and people of different races together, creating collaborative effort to make Flushing a better and healthier neighborhood.

New York Hospital Queens

56-45 Main Street  Flushing, NY 11355

Similarly, New York Hospital Queens was founded in 1892 as a haven for unmarried mothers, located on East 123^rd St. of Manhattan. This hospital was one of the first facilities established by the Salvation Army in the United States. Then during World War I, the hospital offered free medical services for family members of the soldiers. After the recession of the war, the hospital was relocated twice before it stayed permanently in Flushing, Queens. Then in 1992, the hospital became an affiliate of the New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Center. New York Hospital Queens has grown into a 519-bed acute care hospital over the years, and has alone admitted around 35,000 patients, has seen more than 140,000 patients, and has treated 115,000 patients through the emergency department last year. Due to the fact that the hospital is part of the New York Presbyterian Healthcare system, the hospital operates on a much bigger scale than that of the Flushing Hospital Medical Center. As Flushing Hospital Medical Center seems to be achieving, New York Hospital Queens also contribute to the development of civility between different populations in Flushing. Doctors and nurses of different ethnicities often treat patients who cannot convey their discomforts effectively in English, but communication will not be a problem due to the availability of translation services. Thus, the services and programs made possible by the hospitals bring the community and people of different races together, creating collaborative effort to make Flushing a better and healthier neighborhood.

Dr. Yuqing Chen’s Clinic

136-21 Roosevelt Avenue Suite 205, Flushing NY 11354

The private clinic of Dr. Yuqing Chen was opened in 1989. It is conveniently located in Prince Center near Main Street. And it mainly serves the Chinese community of Flushing.  An interview with Dr. Chen reveals that most of her patients are both Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese. And the majority of them are from the neighborhood. She does have patients of other races, like Hispanics. The Spanish-speaking patients who come to her are the ones that have been going to her for a long time. Even though they refer their friends to Dr. Chen’s clinics, not all of them stayed. And this is due to the language barrier. People still feel more comfortable talking to doctors in their own language if they do not speak English. And like the hospitals mentioned above, Dr. Chen does not send patients home without treatment even if they do not have insurance.