NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn

10/16/2026

Fear, misinformation, and everyday responsibilities can make it harder for women to keep up with their recommended mammograms.

Dr. Natalie Zelenko, a radiologist and breast imaging specialist, spoke with Brooklyn Paper about how these barriers delay care and why early detection matters.

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Brooklyn doctors explain why fear, misinformation, cultural concerns and busy schedules keep women from getting mammograms.

10/14/2026

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10/01/2026

During the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone’s annual Back-to-School Drive in Brooklyn, more than 1,000 local children received backpacks and school supplies to help them start the school year ready to learn.

For nearly 20 years, NYU Langone Health has helped families across Brooklyn and Long Island get ready for the school year through our annual drive. At the Brooklyn event, families also connected with health screenings, community resources, and activities hosted by our teams and partner organizations.

On Long Island, backpacks and school supplies were distributed at several locations and community events in Westbury and Patchogue.

We’re proud to continue supporting students and families both in and beyond the classroom, and to work alongside community partners and local leaders to help families start the school year feeling prepared and supported 🎒✏️

09/17/2026

Career growth doesn’t always mean following a straight path. For nurses at NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn, it can mean changing specialties, continuing their education, or stepping into an entirely new role.

Since January 1, 2025, nearly 400 nurses have transferred into new positions within the hospital, building on the experience and relationships they already have while pursuing new opportunities.

For Phoebe Roman, RN, that journey started long before she became a nurse. Phoebe joined the hospital in 2011 as a patient service associate in the emergency department and later worked in several nonclinical roles. With support from NYU Langone’s tuition assistance program, she pursued a longtime goal of becoming a nurse and, in October 2025, began working as a registered nurse on the medical-surgical telemetry unit.

“It’s been really fulfilling to stay in the community, serve the people who live here, and give back,” says Phoebe, who is now pursuing a master’s degree in nursing with a focus on leadership and education.

Nicole Shaboldin, RN, took a different path. She joined NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn as a patient care technician while in nursing school and later became a registered nurse on the behavioral health unit. With an interest in critical care, she worked with nursing leadership to explore new opportunities and transitioned to the surgical intensive care unit in 2025.

“It was definitely a big leap, but I adapted fairly quickly because of all the resources,” says Nicole, who is now preparing for her Critical Care Registered Nurse exam.

Their stories show how internal mobility, continued education, and specialty development can help nurses pursue new career paths while continuing to serve the communities they know.

08/27/2026

At NYU Langone Health, nurses are using their experiences to shape the technology they use every day to support patient care. One recent innovation is the Philips Care Assist app.

The app, which sends alerts directly to nurses' work phones, was developed over two and a half years with feedback from frontline nurses who identified the need for easier access to information behind patient alerts and fewer steps in their workflow. It sends critical physiologic monitoring alerts, vital signs, and waveform tracings to help nurses with immediate access to all the information so they can quickly assess what prompted a notification and prioritize their response.

The app will begin rolling out at NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk across 18 units before expanding to campuses in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Mineola.

“When you’re working in the ICU, you’re exposed to alarms throughout the day, which contributes to alarm fatigue,” says Angelique Sanchez, RN, a surgical ICU nurse at NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk who will be among the first nurses to use the app when it launches. “With Philips Care Assist, we’re able to monitor patients’ telemetry, oxygenation, and blood pressure in real time, allowing us to respond even more efficiently to clinically significant changes.”

By incorporating nurses’ frontline experience into technology development, NYU Langone is creating tools designed around real clinical workflows to help its nurses provide the best care to their patients.

“An MCIT team dedicated to clinical mobile technologies, led by Brant Lipari, RN, and Meghan Reilly, RN, collaborated closely over two and a half years with Joanna M. Marmo, MSN, MBA, RN, and other staff nurses, along with Philips, to create a trusted clinical mobile companion that accurately and efficiently provides alerts to nurses,” said Suzanne Howard, vice president of clinical systems at MCIT.

08/20/2026

Kathleen Pastori nearly lost her foot to gangrene, but thanks to an endovascular procedure performed by Dr. Karan Garg at NYU Langone, she is back to walking.

08/05/2026

At NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn, nurses are turning their frontline experience into meaningful improvements in patient care and safety through a nurse-led council.

NYU Langone Health’s nursing councils are groups of frontline nurses that meet regularly to identify care challenges, share ideas, and work with hospital leadership to develop and implement solutions. Through this shared governance model, nurses have a formal voice in decisions affecting clinical practice, workflows, education, safety, and patient outcomes.

The nurse-led Quality and Safety Council at NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn recently expanded education and training to help prevent pressure injuries, also known as bedsores. By improving how repositioning devices and specialty low-air-loss mattresses are used, nurses have helped reduce pressure injuries by 26 percent since 2025.

Nurses in Brooklyn have also strengthened fall prevention by appointing fall champions on every unit, leading scenario-based training, and improving how they speak with patients about asking for help, including when using the bathroom.

“These councils are essential to continuous quality improvement, and the nurse-hospital leadership relationship is fundamental to making meaningful change in patient outcomes,” says Stephanie A. Nolan, DNP, MBA, vice president of nursing and patient care services at NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn.

By bringing nurses’ ideas from the bedside into practice, nursing councils are helping improve workflows, strengthen patient education, and deliver safer care across the hospital.