The roughly 33-foot long St. John’s Episcopal Hospital’s new mobile health unit stood idle in the Far Rockaway facility’s parking lot on May 19, but its engine is expected to be revved up to bring at least 15 different medical services to people on the Rockaway Peninsula.
more
By Jeff Bessen
|
5/20/21
|
Outside St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway at a news conference turned pep rally on March 5, elected and hospital officials announced that the medical facility that was being pressured by the New York State Department of Health to become a 15-bed “micro hospital” the plan has stalled.
more
By Jeff Bessen
|
3/5/21
|
he New York State Department of Health is pressing St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, in Far Rockaway, to implement a plan that would convert the 257-bed facility to a “micro-hospital,” according to people who are aware of the situation.
more
By Jeff Bessen
|
3/2/21
|
One day after New Year’s Day, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway welcomed its first baby of 2021. Rockaway residents Taniqua Dicy Bradley and fiancée, Thomas Franklin Witcher, said hello to their baby girl, Treasure Storm Witcher, at 6:35 a.m. She was born at 6 lbs., 12 oz, and 19.5 inches long.
more
By Hailey Gise
|
1/13/21
|
At times, reporting on the coronavirus pandemic has been reduced to numbers — the number of cases, positivity rates, the number of deaths. At hospitals, including St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, in Far Rockaway, there are many people behind those numbers, from the administrators who run the facility to the doctors and nurses who treat patients.
more
By Jeff Bessen
|
12/2/20
|
As of Dec. 3, the Rockaway Peninsula will have a new state-of-the-art health center, according to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital officials as it opens a new medical practice at 105-38 Rockaway Beach Boulevard in Rockaway Park.
more
By Jeff Bessen
|
11/30/20
|
Nearly a year after being struck by car outside her Inwood home on Oct. 18, Sasha Young, who heads Gammy’s Pantry inside the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence and some teenagers who volunteer at the Community Center helped to save a woman’s life on Oct. 7.
more
By Jeff Bessen
|
10/8/20
|
St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway is seeking donations to buy equipment for the new women’s health center that is expected to open next year. St. John’s, which also serves the Five Towns, is the only hospital on the Rockaway Peninsula.
more
By Jeff Bessen
|
8/3/20
|
The United Hospital Fund, a nonprofit organization that advocates for netter health care, gave its Excellence in Health Care Award to Terri Coyle, the vice president of behavioral health for St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway.
more
By Jeff Bessen
|
7/15/20
|
St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway is offering free virtual emotional support groups through the Zoom platform in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the Covid-19 illness.
more
By Jeff Bessen
|
6/24/20
|