A yellow crane lowered the final beam into place to complete the steel structure that will become St. John’s Episcopal Hospital’s new Ambulatory Pavilion, which is expected to open next …
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By Lisa Margaria
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7/14/22
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What’s being called the first comprehensive women’s health center on the Rockaway Peninsula has opened to much fanfare.
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By Lisa Margaria
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4/7/22
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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.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/5/21
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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.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/2/21
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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.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/2/20
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National Superheroes Day took on special meaning at St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway on April 28 as the only hospital on the Rockaway Peninsula celebrated its staff that are the health care workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/29/20
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At the Herald, we want to add our voices to the growing chorus of supporters thanking our front-line medical workers and first responders who are, as they say, doing God’s work.
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4/9/20
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Within the past month, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway has successfully treated and discharged more than 120 patients with coronavirus, hospital officials said. St. John’s …
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/8/20
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Five years ago, Peninsula Hospital closed, making St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, in Far Rockaway, the only large health care facility on the Rockaway Peninsula.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/13/17
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In his news conference last Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump said that he wants to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act quickly and simultaneously.
Even without a new president, Congress last week . . .
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1/19/17
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