Organization Details

Description & History

Jacobi Medical Center is a member of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and the largest Public Hospital in the Bronx.

We are a major academic affiliate and teaching site of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and we are affiliated for clinical services with the New York Medical Alliance, P.C.

JMC offers a complete range of acute, specialty, general care and psychiatric services and specialized Emergency Departments for adult, pediatric and psychiatric services.

JMC is a Level I Trauma Center (serving the North Bronx and Lower Westchester); the regional Hyperbaric Center and Regional Snakebite Center for the Tristate area.

It operates the only multi-person emergency hyperbaric chamber in New York City and the only Burn Unit in the Bronx, the second largest in New York City, with 30 years of clinical research and teaching experience, pioneering in early surgical intervention to preserve skin and minimize infection and injury.

JMC serves as a referral center for acute psychiatry, burn care, neonatology, infectious disease, chest medicine, tropical medicine, rehabilitation and home care.

It also operate a Level III Neonatal ICU with one of the best outcome records in the United States; a Women Health Center, a “model” primary care program that provides the full spectrum of women’s health needs from adolescence through maturity; and a state-of-the-art Outpatient Center for adult AIDS patients.

JMC Sponsors approved residency and fellowship training programs in over 40 specialties and subspecialties.

JMC is a HHC “pilot” site for adaptation of electronic patient management system to create a computerized patient record.

Contact Persons
Luisa Hernandez, Network Associate Director
(718) 918-4880
Luisa.Hernandez@nbhn.net
Chandra (Sandy) Rahaman, Clerical Associate
(718) 918-4881
Chandra.Rahaman@nbhn.net
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1400 Pelham Parkway South/NR-1S20
Bronx, NY 10461
(718) 918-4880
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