Facts and Statistics
Facts about Westchester Medical Center
Westchester Medical Center maintains 643 beds and serves more than 120,000 patients per year. Our advanced healthcare services make us the specialty referral hospital of choice for physicians and patients as well as the proud hosts of many "onlys" in the Hudson Valley region. >>View our 2011 Annual Report
The "Only" Facts About Us
Westchester Medical Center is home to the:
- Only full-service center for the heart in the region at Westchester Heart and Vascular
- Only all-specialty Children's Hospital in the region
- Only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in the region
- Only Level IV (highest level) Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the region
- Only critical care Hyperbaric Center in the region
- Only comprehensive Stroke Center in the region
- Only advanced-care academic Medical Center in the region
- Only Level 1 adult and pediatric Trauma Centers with 24-hour medevac helicopter and ground transport in the region-STAT Flight-staffed with teams of critical care flight nurses and paramedics
- Only Burn Center between New York City and the Canadian border in Eastern New York, and the only one in New York State verified by the American Burn Association
- Only Transplant Center in the region, offering innovative, state-of-the-art evaluation and treatment for patients of all ages who require kidney, liver, heart, corneal and bone marrow transplants
Other Facts and Statistics
- Our Trauma Center and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit are the highest-level units of their kind in the region
- Our children's hospital, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, is home to one of only five Pediatric Asthma Clinical Research Centers in the U.S.
- Our comprehensive cardiac program has performed more than 1.5 million procedures to date
- Our Transplant Center has performed more than 2,000 transplants
- ICU Focus = 134 dedicated Adult, pediatric and neonatal intensive care beds
- Westchester Medical Center is one of the region's largest sources of employment with a workforce of over 5,000 and roughly 900 attending physicians
- Westchester Medical Center's economic impact = over $1.6 billion annually
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