FEATURES
Rockaway Beach Welcomes Women’s Heath Facility The facility brings much-needed health services to the Rockaways.
R
ockaway Beach has long been a playground for New York
way Beach Blvd. in Rockaway Park, New York, is so important. Devel-
City, with surf, sand and, at one time, an amusement park.
oped by St. John’s parent Episcopal Health Services and CHA Partners,
But the densely populated peninsula has long lacked
the state-of-the-art facility, part of the new Rockaway Beach Medical
sufficient medical facilities. The region (and neighboring
Arts Complex, offers top-quality medical care in a modern setting to a
communities in adjacent Nassau County) is served by St. John’s Epis-
medically underserved area in Rockaway Beach.
copal Hospital, a 257-bed building providing preventive, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative services.
“Since our inception, CHA has remained focused on filling the void for medical and healthcare services where they are needed most, and
That’s why the opening of the Margaret O. Carpenter Women’s Health
the opening of the Margaret O. Carpenter Women’s Health Center will
Center, the first-of-its-kind specialty medical facility at 105-20 Rocka-
mark a new day for patients in the Rockaway Beach region,” said CHA’s
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