New York Methodist Hospital

The new Seventh Avenue entrance
to NYM’s Emergency Department.
A young patient is examined in the Emergency
Department’s pediatric triage area.
New Emergency Department
New York Methodist Hospital was delighted
to unveil the renovated and expanded Emergency
Department (ED) facilities late this spring. The new
department features a state-of-the-art 45-bed adult
unit and a 10-bed pediatric unit. A new entrance
to the ED has opened on the southwest corner of
Seventh Avenue and Sixth Street, providing a new
“front door” for the Hospital.
Along with separate adult and pediatric
waiting rooms, the Hospital’s ED is equipped with
a pediatric triage room and two adult triage rooms.
The triage areas are staffed with a triage nurse and
two physician assistants, who are able to begin
immediate diagnostic assessments of patients. “All of
our additions and renovations were created with the
community’s needs in mind and I am very thankful
for their patience throughout this construction
process,” said Joseph Bove, M.D., chairman of
emergency medicine at NYM.
The new ED has adopted a new triage and
evaluation system known as the Simple Medical
screening And Rapid Treatment (S.M.A.R.T) program.
S.M.A.R.T was created to quickly assess the severity
of a patient’s illness or injury and promptly treat and
discharge patients who do not need admission to the
Hospital. NYM is one of only a few institutions in
the metropolitan area to use the program. “S.M.A.R.T
is a new and innovative program that allows our
nurses and physicians to treat patients in the most
effi cient way possible,” said Dr. Bove.
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