Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso joined NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull leaders in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Aug. 21 to break ground on a $20 million renovation of the hospital's Labor and Birthing Suite, with $11 million provided by his office. The project will deliver larger birthing rooms with hydrotherapy tubs, a new family comfort space, a modernized operating room with a simulation lab, and renovated recovery, nurse station, medicine, and staff areas. Construction will proceed in phases to avoid disrupting patient care. Completion is scheduled for fall 2027. Maternal mortality for Black patients in 2023 was 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, triple that of white patients.
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso joined leaders from NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Aug. 21 to break ground on a $20 million renovation of the hospital's Labor and Birthing Suite, including $11 million in funding from his office. The state of the art birthing center is scheduled for completion in fall 2027. Plans call for larger, renovated birthing rooms with tubs for hydrotherapy, as well as a new family comfort space.
Other upgrades include a modernized operating room with a simulation lab for staff training. The recovery area, nurse station, medicine room, staff break room, locker rooms, bathroom, and on-call rooms will also be renovated to improve collaboration among midwives, nurses and physicians. Construction will take place in phases to avoid disrupting patient care.
Reynoso, who has made maternal health care a cornerstone of his administration, said the project is about more than shiny new technology it's about creating a birthing experience in a safe and comfortable environment. Every Brooklynite deserves a health care system that they can trust. Especially Black and Brown Brooklynites who were pushed to the margins of this system for too long, Reynoso said. This is not an economic issue; it's a race issue. And
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