Endoscopy

Coney Island Hospital’s Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit has recently expanded. As a result, we have tripled the number of procedures we perform. In addition, our Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit has new state-of-the-art equipment. A team of highly experienced gastroenterologists working together with our well-trained and dedicated endoscopy nurses have made the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit one of the finest in Brooklyn.

The Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit strongly recommends Colonoscopy for everyone 50 years of age and older. Here’s why:

• Colon cancer causes more than 1,500 deaths each year in New York
City, although it’s nearly 100% curable if detected early
• Men are at higher risk than women for developing colorectal cancer
• The risk of developing colon cancer increases with age
• Colonoscopy is the most accurate test and the only that can actually
remove polyps before they develop into cancer

Endoscopy
• Location: 8 West
• Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM;
Monday 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM; Friday 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
• Telephone: (718) 616-3772

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Southern Brooklyn has long been a Mecca to new immigrants. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was ethnic Jews, Irish and Italians who settled here. In the 50s and 60s, African-Americans migrated from the South to live and work in New York City. Many settled in Coney Island where there was newly constructed affordable housing. From the late 1970s through the early 1990s, Brighton Beach became known as Little Odessa because it became the home of refugees fleeing religious and political persecution in the former Soviet Union. In the last 10 years, immigrants from many parts of the world have made southern Brooklyn their home as they sought a better life for themselves and their children.

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2601 Ocean Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11235
General Information:
(718) 616-3000

Southern Brooklyn and Staten
Island Health Network