Just over three and a half years after Elmhurst Hospital was at the epicenter of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Council Member Shekar Krishnan and his colleagues in government announced a “groundbreaking” $17 million in critical investment in the second oldest municipal hospital in New York City.
The public hospital has 545 beds in operation and sees more than 1 million patients each year, and delivered more than 4,000 babies in 2002.
