STANDING Brooklyn’s Biggest Booster
Hospital makes the grade in safety
FORT GREENE
Congrats to The Brooklyn Hospital
Center for earning the top grade in
patient safety.
The Fort Greene medical center is
one of only two hospitals in the city to
get an A from the Leapfrog Group, a
national healthcare ratings organization,
and the only Brooklyn A-rated
hospital. In fact, only about eight percent
of hospitals in the entire state received
this grade.
“This ‘A’ is really the culmination
of a story we began in late 2015,”
says Gary G. Terrinoni, president
and chief executive offi cer of the 464-
bed community hospital, the oldest
in Brooklyn. “Since then, The Brooklyn
Hospital Center has invested millions
of dollars to hire top doctors and
specialists who have created new approaches
to care and have ensured a
quality environ ment for patients.”
Among the changes the hospital has
made is a new critical-care initiative
that improves outcomes for the sickest
patients. It also launched its Epic electronic
medical record, which provides
better coordination of care.
And it has plans for a $23-million
transformation grant to renovate the
Emergency Department, beginning
early 2019, as well as a renovation of
the medical center’s Fort Greene campus
and an expansion of the hospital’s
ambulatory network.
“We are doing sound and savvy
planning to keep Brooklyn healthy today
and into the future. And, we are
thrilled to be celebrating our 175th anniversary
in 2020. These achievements
— and, of course, this ‘A’ — give patients,
the community, and clinicians
an excellent reason to take another
look at The Brooklyn Hospital Center,”
says Terrinoni.
Standing O says, keep up the good
work!
BOROUGH WIDE
Don’t be a Scrooge
Three cheers for the North Brooklyn
Chamber of Commerce, which is
once again hosting a toy drive for kids
in need.
The organization’s Big Brooklyn
Holiday Toy Drive aims to put a
smile on children’s faces this holiday
season. The generous minds behind
the drive got the idea after Hurricane
Sandy forced affected families to prioritize
more important things over
presents that year.
“We recognized the good being
done by so many agencies and organizations,
but also observed that nothing
specifi c was being done to give children
an opportunity to celebrate some
semblance of the holiday season. This
is where our idea for a toy drive came
in. We wanted to do something that
might help put a smile on the faces
of children who might otherwise not
have had that opportunity due to the
suffering and hardship that occurred
as a result of Sandy.”
Six years later and with the help
of many new partners and friends,
they’re still doing what they originally
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set out to do, joining locals and
organizations, and placing toy collection
boxes at various locations
throughout Brooklyn. Now, they’re
asking the O to spread the word.
Big-hearted Brooklynites interested
in helping can do the following:
• Make a donation by sending a
check to the Chamber’s partner NYC
SUNSET PARK
Standing O congratulates the
honchos and patients at Sunset
Park’s Maimonides Medical Center,
which raised more than $500,000 for
breast cancer research during the
hospital’s annual “Pink Week” from
Oct. 14 to 21. The weeklong event
helped highlight the hospital’s services
and celebrate the brave patients
battling breast cancer, according
to the chair of the hospital’s
board of trustees.
“Pink Week celebrate the brave
women and men who are surviving
breast cancer, and it spotlights the
great care they receive at Maimonides,”
said Eugene Keilin.
The week-long event began with
a pink-ribbon fl ag raising outside
the 10th Avenue hospital — located
between 48th and 49th streets —
where breast cancer survivors and
hospital leaders delivered remarks
about the importance of breast cancer
research and the signifi cance of
the “Pink Week.”
Another highlight of the week
included the Ride2Live event, a
gathering of more than 450 motorcycle
riders and enthusiasts who
rode through the streets of Kings
County to MCU Park in Coney Island
to raise awareness and funds
for breast-cancer research. Inside
the stadium, the bikers’ families
and other locals enjoyed face painting,
bouncy houses, live music, and
food courtesy of the hospital-backed
Maimonides Family Fun Day.
And just outside the stadium, in
MCU Park’s parking lot, the Cars
Against Cancer exotic-car show featured
its largest turnout ever, with
more than 300 luxury, vintage, and
exotic cars from throughout the tristate
area, accompanied by music
from Latino legend Coro.
The week ended with a pinkthemed
fashion show — dubbed the
“Pink Runway” — at the Marquee
New York nightclub in Manhattan,
featuring breast-cancer survivors
strutting their stuff down the runway
in designer evening wear.
Throughout the week, hospital
staffers also competed to see which
department could “go pink” the
most, trading their scrubs for pink
outfi ts and costumes to raise awareness
for the cause.
Standing O tips its hat to all involved.
— Julianne McShane
DOWNTOWN
What a saint!
Kudos to Brooklyn attorney
Frank Carone for receiving an
award from do-good group the
Catholic Migration Services
on Nov. 28.
Carone, a partner at Downtown
law fi rm Abrams, Fensterman,
Fensterman, Eisman,
Formato, Ferrara, Wolf
and Carone, took home the
2018 Saint Frances X. Cabrini
Award for Migration at The
Bishop’s Residence on Clinton
Avenue in Clinton Hill, where he
was recognized for his commitment
to helping families immigrating
to America by ensuring
they have safe and fair housing
and employment.
Carone said it was a blessing
to receive such an award from
the church and Joralemon Street
organization.
“The church has pioneered
in identifying the needs of those
least able — people here seeking
a better life,” he said. “I am honored
to be recognized and will
continue to help and spread the
message that the migration service
is so vital in areas of immigration
rights, access to healthcare,
and even tenant advocacy,
and has provided comfort for well
over 20,000 immigrants and their
families.”
The award was fi rst given in
1983 to Bishop Francis J. Mugavero,
an immigrant who became
the fi rst citizen of the
United States to be canonized by
the Catholic Church in 1946.
— Julianne Cuba
Together, which will be used to purchase
toys (211 Union Ave., Brooklyn,
NY 11211).
• Sponsor an in-house toy drive. If
you work in a large offi ce or live in a
large building, you can stage an inhouse
drive by setting up a toy collection
box and promoting the event to
your employees or residents.
• Add the toy drive to an existing
event and collect toys on-site.
So come on, Brooklyn, show
your holiday spirit and contribute
today!
For questions or help, contact Paul
Samulski at pspush7@aol.com.
— Courtney Donahue
CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES: Survivors strutted the catwalk at the Maimonides Medical
Center’s “Pink Runway” show at Marquee New York in Manhattan.
Maimonides Medical Center
‘Pink Week’ fights breast cancer
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