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Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is a 350-bed teaching hospital located in the Wyckoff Heights section of Bushwick, Brooklyn in New York City. The hospital is an academic affiliate of the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, the New York Medical College and New York Institute of Technology. The primary goal of the center is to train future physicians that are qualified medically and personably.HistoryIn 1887 the German Hospital Society of Brooklyn was organized by the Plattdeutscher Volksfest-Verein for the purpose of raising funds, purchasing land, and constructing a hospital to serve the large German immigrant community in Brooklyn.The hospital opened its doors in 1899 as the German Hospital of Brooklyn, but was renamed Wyckoff Heights Hospital after World War I because of anti-German sentiments and eventually renamed Wyckoff Heights Medical Center.Designations and achievementsWyckoff Heights Medical Center is a New York State designated stroke center and level III perinatal center.The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association awarded the hospital with a "Silver Performance Achievement Award" in 2011 and a "Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award" in 2012.Surgeons at Wyckoff Medical Center were the first in the state and surrounding Tri-state area to perform an artificial disc implant into a spine.