Interfaith Medical Center is a multi-site community teaching health care system, which provides a wide range of medical, surgical, gynecological, dental, psychiatric and pediatric and other services throughout Central Brooklyn, N.Y. The institution operates a newly-modernized hospital with 287 beds and ambulatory care network of 16 clinics stretching across the Central Brooklyn communities of Crown Heights and Bedford- Stuyvesant. Each year Interfaith Medical Center serves over 250,000 patients, representing every racial, ethnic and national origin group in Central Brooklyn with the majority of people being Caribbean-Americans and African- Americans. Interfaith Medical Center has earned the Joint Commissions Gold Seal of Approval.