SBH Health System

SBH Health System (SBHHS), located in the South-Central Bronx, serves among the poorest populations in the United States. The System includes St. Barnabas Hospital, a 422-bed, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, acute care community hospital and Level 2 Trauma Center, a New York State designated stroke center and state designated AIDS center, ambulatory care facilities with >400,000 outpatient visits annually, SBH Behavioral Health facilities which provide essential services through 19 programs designed to support and meet the mental health needs of adults, teenagers and children in the borough, and our new SBH Health and Wellness Center, which opened in early 2020 and includes a health fitness center, a teaching kitchen, a center for women and children’s health, women’s imaging, a WIC site, and a rooftop farm.

SBHHS has been involved in the education and training of medical students, residents, and fellows for many decades. We train over 300 residents in ACGME accredited programs including internal medicine, emergency medicine, surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, dermatology and osteopathic manipulation medicine. There are accredited residency programs in pharmacy, dentistry and podiatry. SBH is very involved in medical student education and, most notably, is the major teaching hospital of the new City University of New York (CUNY) School of Medicine and serves as a site for the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.

As the health care environment increasingly shifts from a volume-based model to one that promotes value-based care and population health, the work of community hospitals is even more important and demands further reflection and consideration. New trends have impacted the way care is provided in the Bronx and other similarly situated communities, and the SBHHS research channel reflects these new approaches and priorities. Interdisciplinary collaboration will be emphasized in our publications, especially the section on quality improvement projects.

This channel is intended to represent the full range of healthcare approaches of a safety net community-based hospital and will provide a platform for discussion relevant to the range of community hospitals in diverse locales throughout the nation.