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Kings County Hospital Center

451 Clarkson Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11203

With more than 700 beds, Kings County Hospital Center is one of the nation’s largest municipal hospitals and New York State’s largest Level I trauma center. The 16-square-block complex originated as a one-room infirmary in 1830.

In 1955, Kings County was the site of the state’s first open-heart surgery. Its physicians invented the world’s first hemodialysis machine, conducted the first studies of HIV infection in women, and produced the first human images using magnetic resonance.

Among Kings County’s specialty services are the Comprehensive Alcoholism Outpatient Center, the Pediatric and Maternal HIV Center, the Mobile Crisis Team, and the progressive Interventional Radiology division.

Clinical services

• Ambulatory and general surgery
• Cardiology
• Emergency medicine
• Neurology and neurosurgery
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Pain management
• Pediatrics
• Plastic surgery
• Psychiatry
• Rehabilitative medicine
• Sleep disorder services

Kings County Hospital Center is a member of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.