TBHC NAMED A GREAT WORKPLACE 2025 BY NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE
Last month, Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group announced their list of “America’s Greatest Workplaces 2025.” TBHC was included! This is the third annual publication of such a list. Inclusion was determined by a comprehensive assessment involving employee interviews, company reviews, publicly accessible data and an analysis of over 120 key performance indicators.
We couldn’t be prouder! The benefits of a strong community hospital are obvious. But TBHC is Keeping Brooklyn Healthy in another way – economically.
With 2,611 team members, TBHC is among the top employers in Downtown Brooklyn; 74 percent of those positions are well-paying union jobs. That figure doesn’t
count the medical practices and related support businesses that work with the hospital. TBHC’s team is a mirror of our community as well. In fact, 87 percent of TBHC employees live within 15 miles of the hospital’s main campus and 36 percent live within 5 miles. And, many of those employees enjoy long tenures at TBHC. Yearly, someone marks their 40th or even 50th year of service!
Jennifer H. Cunningham, Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek says: “Companies that emphasize building a strong workplace environment see higher levels of employee engagement. And with higher employee engagement comes a range of benefits.”
Thank you to each of you who help to make this a great place to work and a great place for our community to get care!
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Proper Surgical Attire
• No jewelry should be exposed.
• No surgical caps are to be worn, or if caps are worn, they must be covered with a bouffant.
• All facial hair must be covered with a beard cover.
Leaving Perioperative/Procedure Areas
• Surgical attire must be covered with a buttoned lab jacket/coat, NOT a PPE gown when leaving the surgical area to any other part of the institution.
• All personnel must change into into street clothes when leaving hospital grounds (including for meal and smoke breaks). If the staff leave the building with scrubs on, when they re-enter the building, their scrubs must be changed prior to entering the OR/procedure area.
• Discard all PPE (mask, gown, gloves) at point of use.
• Wearing masks dangling under the chin in and around the hospital and ambulatory sites is prohibited.
About Your Nails
• Keep natural nails short enough to clean thoroughly underneath, about 1/4 inch in length.
• Artificial nails including wraps, acrylics, fill, gel powder or any other artificial materials are NOT acceptable.
• Nail polish may not be chipped or have decorations.
Rounds
In partnership with NYPD’s 88th Precinct and 88th Community Council, we celebrated National Night Out on August 5. We spent time at Underwood Park and offered info on our services. Special guests included (1) Rep. Nydia Velázquez and (2) Captain Stephen Lease, Commanding Officer of the 88th Precinct. (3) Thanks to all the staff and volunteers who came out to make the event a success!
We invariably provide blood pressure screenings at our community events. Those screenings do save lives. In fact, in mid-June, our team was at 4) Men’s Health Fair at Brooklyn Adult Learning School, when Hakeem Salaam, RN, called for an ambulance to take a person to our ED because his blood pressure was dangerously high. Other community events we participated in this summer (so far!) included 5) the Farragut Houses Annual Block Party, and 6) the International Africa Arts Festival held at Commodore Barry Park. Our outreach teams, led by Community Liaison Sakibeh Mustafa, has so far screened more than 800 people this year!
The American Heart Association recently awarded TBHC with the 2025 Gold Plus Stroke Award. This award recognizes TBHC for its continued commitment to enhanced and high quality patient care with evidence-based guidelines.
Service That Goes Above and Beyond
Dallas Griffin: Emergency Room, Orthopedic Surgery
Brooklyn College student and dancer Dallas Griffin is a busy guy, and like many busy young men, he simply does not have the time for healthcare setbacks. With that in mind, he battled through ongoing knee problems on his own. “I dealt with pain and my knee misaligning,” Mr. Griffin recalls. “Typically, I could work it back in place and keep going, though it certainly wasn’t getting better. One night last year, after a physically strenuous workout, the knee locked up on me. But, this time was different, and there was no realigning or making it work.”
Mr. Griffin decided to head to TBHC, his community hospital. With an ambulance on the way, Mr. Griffin knew the EMTs would have a challenge getting him down four narrow flights of stairs. So, again, not one to sit around and wait for things to happen, he packed a small bag and hopped down to meet them. From that point on, Mr. Griffin had no choice but to put himself and his injured knee into TBHC’s hands.
“Dallas presented at the Emergency Department on a Wednesday with a locked meniscus, which accounted for the lack of movement,” says Bryan Conti, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon. “His MRI was scheduled for Thursday, and indicated the need for surgery.
I had an out-of-town trip coming up, but I didn’t want Dallas to wait any longer than necessary and I decided to prioritize his care.” TBHC had Mr. Griffin in the operating room just three days later. Today, Mr. Griffin is on the mend and has been as pleased with his follow-up care as he was with his emergency care.
That’s the kind of service that sets TBHC apart and has neighbors like Dallas Griffin asking, “Why go elsewhere?”
