April has marked a new beginning for emergency services at New York Methodist Hospital (NYM), and for all Brooklynites who may need life-saving care in the days, weeks, months, and years ahead. That is because NYM now receives trauma patients via New York City Emergency Medical Services.

Join Jessy Colah, M.D., chief of psychiatry at NYM, as he presents Beating the Blues. The seminar will take place on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Occidental Room of the Brooklyn College Student Center located on the fifth floor at East 27th Street and Campus Road.

The number of children who come to New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) for general surgery has increased by almost 50 percent in the last two years, with the Hospital now logging almost 500 cases annually.

New York Methodist Hospital’s Department of Food and Nutrition Services will recognize National Nutrition Month and Registered Dietitians Day on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. New York Methodist Hospital will sponsor American Diabetes Alert Day on Wednesday, March 25, 2015, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Free screenings will be offered, and healthcare professionals will be available to answer questions about diabetes.

New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) and Preserve Park Slope (PPS) today announced the settlement of the litigation commenced by PPS, challenging the approval of the Hospital’s Center for Community Health (CCH) by New York City’s Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA).

On February 6, 2015, New York Methodist Hospital recognized Go Red for Women Day, a national campaign sponsored by the American Heart Association to raise awareness about women’s heart disease. NYM staff members and volunteers gave their time for the event, and provided more than one hundred attendees with free blood pressure screenings, information on heart healthy foods and consultations about how to manage heart medications.

New York Methodist Hospital offers a free monthly healthy aging seminar series at Brooklyn College. This month join Keerthana Keshava, M.D., director of interventional pulmonology at New York Methodist Hospital, as she presents Just Breathe. The seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 9, 2015, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Occidental Room of the Brooklyn College Student Center.

A new device now offered at New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) is providing patients with dangerous heart conditions a less invasive treatment option for life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythms). The device is called a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (S-ICD).