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’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.

The Division of Dental Medicine at NYM and the American Dental Association will sponsor Give Kids A Smile Day! on Friday, February 6, 2015, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. NYM will sponsor Go Red for Women Day on Friday, February 6, 2015, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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).

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).

New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) recently opened the NYM Medical Associates of Brooklyn Heights practice at 50 Court Street, located on the border between Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn. The new facility is built to house Hospital specialists in cardiology, internal medicine, gastroenterology, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, urology and vascular surgery.

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.

From September 20 to 26, New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) will celebrate its 53 certified surgical technologists during National Surgical Technologists Week. Surgical technologists are an important part of surgical teams in hospitals across the country; when time is tight and a patient''s life is on the line, an outstanding “tech” can make all the difference.