Beth
Israel Medical Center-- Lower East Side, Betty and Morton Yarmon Stroke
Center
Long Island College Hospital-- Brooklyn
St. Luke’s Hospital--Upper West Side
Roosevelt Hospital--Midtown West
Continuum Health Partners’ stroke specialists at the following locations conduct the gamut of stroke tests rapidly and efficiently. They are essential links in your Stroke Chain of Survival:
Betty and Morton Yarmon Stroke Center--
Beth Israel Medical Center
Petrie Division
First Avenue at 16th Street, Manhattan
Irene R. Boniece, MD -- (212) 844-1241
Dewitt D. Pyburn, MD -- (212) 420-2228
Louise M. Klebanoff, MD -- (212) 844-8486
At Beth Israel Medical Center’s Petrie Division, emergency department physicians rapidly assess and treat patients exhibiting acute stroke symptoms. Neurologists at the Betty and Morton Yarmon Stroke Center are available 24-hours a day to provide comprehensive consultation, supervise diagnostic evaluations and make treatment decisions.
A neurologically trained staff physician supervises the division’s four-bed stroke unit, where specially trained nurses provide expert stroke care.
In addition to its stroke service, the Petrie Division’s excellent cardiology and vascular surgery services provide comprehensive care for patients with vascular disease.
At the Betty and Morton Yarmon Stroke Center stroke neurologists and other stroke specialists work together to provide stroke-treatment educational opportunities for physicians and non-physician practitioners. They also provide community-based stroke screenings and educational programs.
Long Island College Hospital
339 Hicks Street
Brooklyn
Phone: (718) 780-1124
Toby I. Gropen, MD -- Stroke Center Director
Miguel Figueroa, MD
Long Island College Hospital offers one of the New York metropolitan area’s leading centers for the diagnosis and management of acute stroke. A team of stroke specialists, available 24 hours a day, applies a full array of vascular imaging and other vital testing systems to evaluate and diagnose stroke patients.
“Our objective,” says stroke center director Toby I. Gropen, MD, “is to determine within one hour or less if a person is having a stroke. When appropriate, we then apply a clot-busting drug treatment. Some patients may require emergency surgery, which we are ready to provide.
“We have succeeded in meeting and exceeding this time-critical objective for our patients by continually improving diagnostic and treatment systems and methods. The medical center’s completely renovated and enlarged emergency department has helped us greatly in this regard.
“Stroke patients also benefit from our center’s newly-renovated, eight-bed stroke unit that is staffed by nurses with special expertise in stroke care. This unit is very effective in preventing the complications of stroke and maximizing good patient outcomes.”
The stroke center’s in-patient rehabilitation facilities provide excellent physical, occupational and speech therapy. After discharge, the medical center offers programs for the aggressive management of stroke risk factors to help patients prevent future strokes.
Dr. Gropen also serves as the chairperson for the American Stroke Association’s Operation Stroke program in New York City. He points out that a cooperative pilot study launched by the city and the association will soon establish designated stroke centers in Brooklyn and Queens. Emergency Medical Service ambulances would take stroke patients in those boroughs directly to a designated center.
“We are very optimistic that Long Island College Hospital’s outstanding stroke diagnostic and treatment capabilities will support our selection as a designated stroke center,” Dr. Gropen says.
St. Luke’s Hospital--Upper West Side
Amsterdam Avenue at West 114th Street
Manhattan
Phone: (212) 523-3144
Richard Benson, MD, PhD
Daniel Labovitz, MD, MS
E. John Nasrallah, MD
At the St. Luke’s Hospital stroke center, neurologists with special training in stroke diagnosis and treatment provide expert care for stroke patents. The center’s dedicated four-bed stroke intensive care unit permits close observation and extra attention from nurses trained in stroke care.
When patients with a possible stroke arrive at the hospital’s state-of-the-art emergency department, they are given top priority and are seen immediately by an emergency physician.
When the doctor believes a patient has had a stroke or TIA, the stroke team is contacted and preparations begin for critical testing in the emergency room. If the stroke has occurred within the last three hours, a stroke neurologist immediately comes to the emergency room in case tPA treatments should begin.
All stroke patients remain in the center’s intensive care unit for at least one day. However, healing and rehabilitation start right away. All stroke patients begin work with speech therapists, occupational therapists and physical therapists within 24 hours of their arrival.
“Many patients recover sufficiently to return home a few days after their stroke,” says stroke neurologist Daniel Labovitz, MD, MS. “They continue their rehab on an outpatient basis at one of our rehab centers.
“However, some individuals require intensive in-patient therapy before they are ready to return home. The stroke team works closely with the rehabilitation team to make sure the transition goes smoothly.
“The hospital also has a stroke outpatient center where we help patients over the long term understand and manage their personal stroke risk factors.
“In addition to offering high quality stroke treatment services, the stroke center conducts many outreach programs. We want to raise community members’ awareness of the signs of stroke, and make them realize they should come to us immediately when any of these signs appear in themselves or a family member.
“We want to help the people in our community to take an active role in managing their health and preventing stroke before--not after--one occurs.”
Roosevelt Hospital--Midtown
Tenth Avenue between West 58th and 59th Streets
Manhattan
Phone: (212) 523. 3144
Carolyn Brockington, MD
Daniel Labovitz, MD, MS
E. John Nasrallah, MD
Senior stroke specialists are available around the clock in Roosevelt Hospital’s emergency department to evaluate and treat stroke patients who are eligible for clot-busting therapy.
Patients benefit from state-of-the-art diagnostic systems that enable these stroke neurologists to efficiently evaluate a patient’s condition in time to apply clot-busting medication or to take other appropriate action.
All stroke patients remain under observation at the hospital for at least one day. Some receive continuous blood pressure and cardiac monitoring. Those who are able, begin work with a speech therapist, occupational therapist and physical therapist within 24 hours of their arrival.
The hospital’s participation in advanced clinical trials enables eligible patients to benefit from new stroke fighting drugs and therapies.
Roosevelt Hospital is building a dedicated neurosciences floor, including a stroke intensive care unit. It is expected to be complete within the year. The unit will provide facilities that reinforce specially trained neurology nurses’ ability to monitor and evaluate stroke patients, and to deliver the high level of care many stroke patients require.