Early in 1999, Lincoln opened its new $2.2 million Children's Health Center, featuring 49 spacious examination rooms and designed to treat young people from birth to age 19. One very special feature of the new Center is its interactive Starbright World computer network, a program of the Starbright Foundation that links chronically ill children in distant locations--allowing young patients to meet and share thoughts with peers facing similar health problems.
Focusing on enhancing direct service to patients, Lincoln has both expanded its collaborative arrangement and partnerships within network, and outside the network with other health care providers in the Bronx. The consolidation of their Outpatient Rehabilitation and Neurology Services with the Metropolitan Medical Center, for example, allows all patients in the network to receive comprehensive clinical services in one central system.
