As staff and patients of New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) switched on their televisions Tuesday morning, there was a shared sense of disbelief and grief at the havoc that Hurricane Sandy had brought to New York City. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers without power; catastrophic damage and flooding in each of the five boroughs; friends and family whose houses were leveled by the storm.

Thanks to our wonderful and dedicated employees, New York Methodist Hospital''s inpatient services remained fully operational throughout the recent storm.

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New York Methodist Hospital's (NYM) repertoire of minimally invasive bariatric (weight-loss) procedures recently expanded to include laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), an advanced surgical technique designed to help morbidly obese patients lose weight. The procedure is one of the many services offered by NYM's Comprehensive Weight Management Program.

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In 2010, New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) launched the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Center, a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to the treatment of wounds that, for various reasons, have not healed properly with standard medical care. Two years later, with hundreds of patients treated, NYM has announced that, in 2012 alone, the Center logged a 90 percent success rate in healing the previously “unhealable” wounds of Wound Care Center patients. The Center features a staff of wound care experts, as well as advanced, non-surgical options for healing wounds, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT).

New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) has brought point-of-care (at the site of patient care) ultrasound technology to the Emergency Department, the Intensive Care Unit, and other areas of the Hospital where it can provide fast, accurate answers to many of the urgent questions that arise in acute situations.

New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) now offers short-term cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for patients who want to lose weight. CBT is a component of NYM’s Comprehensive Weight Management Program for adults. While other medical and surgical services of the Weight Management Program are available to treat overweight or obese individuals, CBT is a supplementary, drug-free tool that can help those who want to address the mental hurdles that stop them from keeping the pounds off.