NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Center for Special Studies (CSS) offers the highest quality multidisciplinary health care available for people with HIV and AIDS. The center has sites at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and in the ground floor of Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) building. State of the art medical care is the centerpiece of our treatment philosophy which also extends to the psychological, social, and spiritual needs of individuals and families living with HIV and AIDS. To arrange an appointment at the Center for Special Studies, please call:
The Glenn Bernbaum Unit 525 East 68th Street, Room F-24 New York, NY 10021 (212) 746-4180 The David Rogers Unit 119 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 (212) 746-7200
CSS was certified by the New York State Department of Health in 1988 as a designated AIDS care facility. In addition to outpatient primary care, CSS provides inpatient services in a newly renovated, 45-bed medical unit located in the hospital's Greenberg Pavillion. In 1997 CSS opened the David Rogers unit of the Center for Special Studies in collaboration with the Gay Men's Health Crisis. The downtown facility is the first ever large-scale partnership of a major NewYork academic medical center with a community-based AIDS service organization. Clients of Rogers unit of CSS have access to the same high quality, comprehensive primary care for which the center is known, as well as GMHC's spectrum of services, including crisis intervention, intensive case management, legal and financial advocacy, nutritional counseling, recreational classes, treatment and prevention information and counseling, and other social services.
In addition to delivering superior health care to patients, New York-Presbyterian has been at the forefront of AIDS research since the epidemic began. In 1988 the medical center was designated as an AIDS Clinical Trials Unit by the National Institutes of Health. The Cornell Clinical Trials Unit (CCTU) located at both sites is dedicated to providing access to experimental treatments to all HIV-infected individuals.