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Today, NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County announced its Comprehensive Total Joint Replacement Center to enhance surgical services and improve the overall quality of life for patients who suffer from chronic pain due to arthritis and degenerative joint disease. The Center utilizes a multidisciplinary approach and performs minimally invasive procedures that permit patients faster recovery time, reduction in pain and scarring, and higher success rates compared to traditional surgeries. The launch of the Center serves as a milestone in the hospital’s mission towards technological modernization and serving the needs of the community through a necessary practice.

The Total Joint Replacement Center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County addresses the health care needs of residents in Central Brooklyn. It provides a comprehensive service that is vital and affordable. The Center consists of fellowship-trained, board-certified expert-level orthopedic surgeons, non-operative physicians, physician assistants, nurses, physical therapists, and social workers. The hospital’s orthopedic surgeons perform procedures and work with providers and other specialties to provide the highest patient experience and quality care. The orthopedic surgeons implemented an individualized approach to patient care—they work closely with patients to develop a comprehensive care plan that best suits their lifestyle.

“Everything we do, we do to change the status quo,” said NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County Chief Medical Officer Steven Pulitzer. “Our new Total Joint Replacement Center of Excellence demonstrates our hospital’s commitment to patient-centered care and dedication to the communities we serve in Brooklyn.”

“We are excited to announce the opening of our Comprehensive Total Joint Center,” said NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County Director, Comprehensive Total Joint Center Qais Naziri, MD, MBA. “Our hospital’s multidisciplinary team works together and applies a personalized patientcentered approach to restore patients’ activity to help them regain mobility and function. We are proud to offer this life-enhancing service for Brooklyn residents and New Yorkers at large.”

Conditions treated in the Center include:

• Osteoarthritis
• Inflammatory arthritis (including rheumatoid arthritis)
• Post-traumatic osteoarthritis
• Osteonecrosis of the hip & knee
• Hip dysplasia
• Traumatic injuries and fractures
• Congenital, pediatric, and developmental hip disorders (congenital dislocation, perthes, and cerebral palsy)
• Meniscal Injuries

For more information about surgical care services and the Comprehensive Total Joint Replacement Center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, call 718-245-2994.

Contact: Alexis Davis, NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, 718-245-3910

About NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County

NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County is a 639-bed acute care teaching hospital located in Central Brooklyn. Among our highly specialized programs are a Level I Trauma Center, Pediatric Emergency Room, Level 3 Perinatal Center, Heart Health Center, Stroke Center, Sickle Cell Program, Behavioral Health Center, and Diabetes Education Center of Excellence. Many of our programs have received national recognition, including our cardiac, stroke and diabetes services. The hospital offers a broad array of primary and specialty care, including practices in neuroscience, orthopedics, urology and cardiology. Annually, our ambulatory care clinics see well over 500,000 visits, and more than 150,000 visits in the Behavioral Health outpatient program, in addition to close to 23,000 inpatient discharges. NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County has played a major role in providing health care to vulnerable populations in Brooklyn since 1831, and is part of NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health care system in the nation. For more information visit nychealthandhospitals.org/kingscounty and stay connected on Facebook at
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About NYC Health + Hospitals

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the nation serving more than a million New Yorkers annually in more than 70 patient care locations across the city’s five boroughs. A robust network of outpatient, neighborhood-based primary and specialty care centers anchors care coordination with the system’s trauma centers, nursing homes, post-acute care centers, home care agency, and MetroPlus health plan—all supported by 11 essential hospitals. Its diverse workforce of more than 42,000 employees is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible. For more information, visit www.nychealthandhospitals.org and stay connected on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NYCHealthSystem or Twitter at @NYCHealthSystem.