New York City allocates $5.5M to build surgery center — 4 insights

The New York City Council dedicated $5.5 million to build a surgery center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst in the city’s Queens borough, Patch reports.

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What you should know:

1. The hospital will build the surgery center in 2020.

2. The center will include an operating room and four procedure rooms.

3. Center physicians will provide gastroenterology and urology-related treatments.

4. Residents in the surrounding Queens community have disproportionately high numbers of gastroenterology and urological-related conditions.

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