These Brooklyn Hospitals Will Get The Mayor's New Nursing Program

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Several Brooklyn hospitals will participate in the country's first city-led nurse residency program, the mayor's office and small business officials announced Monday.

Park Slope's NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, NYC Health + Hospital/Woodhull in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Mount Sinai Brooklyn and NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island were on the list of 24 hospitals across the city that will participate int he new program.

The Citywide Nurse Residency program will train 500 newly-hired nurses in its first year, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Deputy Mayor J. Phillip Thompson and Department of Small Business Services Commissioner Gregg Bishop announced.

"The program will support participating hospitals with implementing a year-long residency that bridges the gap between education and practice for newly-graduated nurses," the mayor's office said a release. "This is the first time that New York City’s public hospital system, the largest in the nation, has adopted a nurse residency program."

Hospitals have not had the capacity or resources to launch residency programs on their own, the release said, meaning they struggled to retain newly-graduated nurses. Losing one nurse can cost up to $100,000, the hospitals said.

Funding for the program included more than $300,000 contributed by the New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare (NYACH) at SBS. The program is being offered in partnership with the Greater New York Hospital Association, NYU Langone Health and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Here's the full list of hospitals participating:

1. BronxCare Health System
2. Brookdale University Hospital
3. Interfaith Medical Center
4. Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center
5. Mount Sinai Brooklyn
6. Mount Sinai Hospital
7. Mount Sinai Queens
8. Mount Sinai St. Luke’s
9. Mount Sinai West
10. Maimonides Medical Center
11. NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist
12. NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
13. NYC Health + Hospitals – Bellevue
14. NYC Health + Hospitals – Coney Island
15. NYC Health + Hospitals – Elmhurst
16. NYC Health + Hospitals – Harlem
17. NYC Health + Hospitals – Jacobi
18. NYC Health + Hospitals – Kings County
19. NYC Health + Hospitals – Lincoln
20. NYC Health + Hospitals – Metropolitan
21. NYC Health + Hospitals – North Central Bronx
22. NYC Health + Hospitals – Queens
23. NYC Health + Hospitals – Woodhull
24. St. Barnabas Hospital Systems

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