Woodhull Medical Center

Woodhull Medical Center
NYC Health + Hospitals
Geography
Location	760 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York City, United States
Organisation
Type	Specialized and general hospital
Affiliated university	NYU Langone Medical Center
Network	New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Services
Beds	323
History
Opened	1982
Links
Website	www.nychealthandhospitals.org/woodhull/
Other links	Hospitals in Brooklyn

Woodhull Medical Center, also known as NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, is a specialized and general hospital located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York City, United States. It is part of the NYC Health + Hospitals system and is affiliated with NYU Langone Medical Center. The hospital has 323 beds and was founded in 1982.

History

Woodhull hospital was proposed in 1967 by Mayor John V. Lindsay and Governor Nelson Rockefeller as a modern facility with single-occupancy patient rooms. It aimed to provide accessible and personal healthcare to the surrounding communities of Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Bushwick, Greenpoint, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Due to budget issues, the hospital was not opened until 1982, costing $308 million. The emergency room was designed to accommodate 65,000 patients per year. The hospital was named after Richard M. Woodhull, the original landowner of the area. In 2017, Woodhull became the first hospital in Brooklyn to receive the baby-friendly designation.