Kings County Hospital Center

The Kings County Hospital Center is a hospital founded in 1833 in Brooklyn, New York City. The doctors of the hospital developed the world's first dialysis machine, initiated the first studies of HIV infection in women. In addition, here are the first magnetic resonance images were created by man. The hospital has 627 beds. 2007, it was visited by 539 894 patients and 2,423 births were carried out. In the emergency department 116 689 people were treated.

In the hospital many non- insured around Brooklyn are treated. The U.S. Army trains soldiers of reserve units in this hospital to prepare them before use in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq to the treatment of injuries occurring in armed conflict.

On 19 June 2008, died here after 24 hours of waiting time in a waiting room, the 49 - year-old African American woman esmin Green. This recorded by a surveillance camera incident attracted attention worldwide.