Double-ribbon opening for The Brooklyn Hospital Center Emergency Room and Cancer Center Completions
October 4, 2022 The Brooklyn Hospital Center
City Councilmember Crystal Hudson, CEO and Chairman of the Board of New York Cancer & Blood Specialists Dr. Jeffrey Vacirca, Dr. Asha Nayak, who gave a gift toward the infusion unit which now bears her name, TBHC Board Chair Lizanne Fontaine, Red Apple Group EVP and Chief Investment Officer John Catsimatidis, Jr, as they cut the ribbon on the new Brooklyn Cancer Center.
Photo: The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Share this:
Editors’ Note: As Downtown Brooklyn has weathered Covid and built an infrastructure for its brighter future, one of its most historic treasures, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, has taken a lead role in revival. It was Brooklyn’s first hospital and a leading force when Brooklyn was still an Independent city. Its nursing school trained Walt Whitman when the radical poet, and onetime editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle decided to volunteer to serve in the medical corps of the Union Army. It was the birthplace of countless, notable sons and daughters of Brooklyn, not the least of which was Dr. Anthony Fauci. We salute the notable celebration — a double ribbon cutting — of this symbol of the rebirth of Downtown Brooklyn in the new century.
Ce
From left: Board Trustee Earl Weiner, Board Chair Lizanne Fontaine, Board Trustee and Event Chair Shri Madhusudhan, Charles Hamm, TBHC President and CEO Gary Terrinoni, and Irene Hamm, as they cut the ribbon on the Emergency Room Renovation. Photo: The Brooklyn Hospital Center
On October 3, The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) hosted a double-ribbon ceremony for two landmark achievements: the completion of a multi-year, multi-million dollar Emergency Room Renovation and the opening of The Brooklyn Cancer Center (TBCC), a partnership between New York Cancer & Blood Specialists (NYCBS), one of the leading oncology practices in the nation and TBHC. The ED is located at the hospital at 121 DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Cancer Center is located at 86 Fleet Place, also in Fort Greene. Both locations border the busy Downtown Brooklyn district.
The ribbon cutting for the Emergency Room renovation featured poignant remarks from Charles and Irene Hamm, in honor of Charles’ late father, Dr. Frank Coleman Hamm, a former TBHC Chair of Urology. The Hamm’s gave a generous gift and the new Emergency Room entrance bears Dr. Hamm’s name.
New York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.
