Baby #7 Billion and Maimonides
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Word is that the world’s population hit 7,000,000,000 yesterday, and while we can’t know where Baby 7B was born, the Times’ Clyde Haberman estimates that there’s a good chance the kid may have been welcomed into the world at nearby Maimonides Medical Center. They deliver over 7,000 babies a year–about 21 per day–which is the busiest in NYC:
A high number of Orthodox Jews and new immigrants, two broad categories with families larger than average, helped make Maimonides No. 1. Also, the hospital picked up the slack when some other institutions went out of the obstetrics business.
With that much experience there must be something to it. Maimonides has been recommended by neighbors in the past for pediatric emergencies, so does anyone have any experience with the birthing center (or any others in Brooklyn) that they’d like to comment on, good, bad, average?
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Alexandra Reddish
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Art Vandelay
