<P> As of 2016, the U.S. News and World Report rankings place NYPH overall as the sixth - best hospital in the United States . Every specialty was ranked in the top 50 by US News, and the following were ranked in the top 10 of hospitals around the country: neurology and neurosurgery (3); gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery (14); cardiology and heart surgery (3); diabetes and endocrinology (5); nephrology (4); geriatrics (7); pulmonology (8); rheumatology (2); urology (6); and psychiatry (3). </P> <P> New York--Presbyterian Emergency Medical Services (NYP - EMS) is a hospital - based ambulance service that has operated since 1981 . NYP - EMS also operates critical care transport ambulances throughout the New York City Metropolitan Area . The service is licensed to operate in the 5 counties of New York City, Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties in New York, and in the state of New Jersey for Basic Life Support and Specialty Care Transport . In addition to providing emergency and non-emergency ambulance services, either through the New York City 911 system on through the NYP - EMS Communications Center at Weill Cornell Medical Center, NYP - EMS provides stand - by EMS services for events throughout the New York City area, including the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and the NYC Triathlon . </P> <P> NYP - EMS is also a New York State Department of Health - approved training center for EMT and Paramedic programs, several of which are approved for college - level credit by the New York State Department of Education . NYP - EMS operates one of the largest American Heart Association Emergency Cardiac Care training centers in New York . NYP - EMS also maintains a Special Operations team trained in hazardous materials decontamination and technical rescue . This team, accompanied by several Weill Cornell Physicians, provided rescue and relief support on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 . Most recently, the team decontaminated 28 patients after the 2007 New York City steam explosion in Midtown Manhattan on July 18, 2007 . </P> <P> The Allen Hospital is located in northern Inwood, Manhattan . The General Surgery Group of The Allen Hospital specialize in the treatment of hernias and gallbladder diseases . The Hospitalist group and Internal Medicine and Family Medicine residents care for the adult medical patients . There is an active Labor and Delivery Department . It also has the Mila Conanan Memorial Chapel, named after Mila P. Conanan, who had been on the medical center staff for 20 years and the operating rooms director at the Allen Pavilion for three years before her death in 1990.? </P>

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