Overview

We deliver exceptional, compassionate healthcare to families facing financial hardship, ensuring they receive the care they need regardless of insurance coverage or financial situation. Each year, we provide significantly more charity care (10x more) than the typical nonprofit hospital, ensuring families have access to essential care, even when they cannot afford it.

Compassionate healthcare, now and for the long-term

Our comprehensive charity services include primary medical, dental, behavioral healthcare, and specialty medical services such as infectious disease treatment and podiatry. Our optometry clinic provides thorough eye exams and corrective vision services.

With nearly 160 years of experience in New York City, we understand that primary healthcare alone isn’t enough. We extend our support by providing education, practical tools, and strategies that empower families to thrive despite financial constraints, limited access to nutritious food, and scarce neighborhood resources.

The Floating Hospital’s safety-net system delivers healthcare at no cost to New York City families in need, thanks to the generosity of our community of supporters who share our belief that everyone deserves excellent healthcare.

Through them, we keep families afloat.

  • Our team of board-certified physicians provides comprehensive primary medical care to help you maintain good health at every stage of life.

    • Medical exams and preventive cancer screenings

    • Sick and urgent care visits

    • Physicals and immunizations required for school and employment

    • Lab/bloodwork

    • Gynecological exams, pregnancy testing, and prenatal care referrals

    • Vision, hearing, tuberculosis, and lead screenings

    • Management of chronic health issues such as asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, and sexually transmitted diseases

    • Cardiology

    • Podiatry

    • Optometry

  • Our Behavioral Health Team is here to help. We’re trained to understand and address the emotional, psychological, and social issues facing you and your family.

    • Therapy for adults and children

    • Psychiatric and psychological evaluations

    • Individual, couple, and family counseling

    • Child psychiatry

    • Treatment of depression, stress, and anxiety

    • Medication management

    • Substance abuse counseling and therapy

    • Trauma-informed care

    • Case management

  • We help you build good dental habits and keep you smiling! Nicknamed “Gentle Dental” by our patients, our dental program provides quality oral healthcare to people of all ages.

    Our services include:

    • Dental exams and cleanings

    • Scaling

    • Full and partial dentures

    • Bridge work

    • Filings, extractions, and crowns

    • Oral cancer screenings

  • Expert diagnosis, treatment and management, coordinated with primary care.

    Our services include:

    • HIV

    • Hepatitis B and C

    • Lyme Disease

    • Measles

    • Malaria

    • Cellulitis (skin infection), abscesses, osteomyelitis (bone infection), endocarditis (heart valve infection), and other recurrent or progressive infections

  • We offer care that supports your decisions and provides you with the services you need in a safe and confidential setting.

    Our services include:

    • Gynecologic exams

    • Adolescent gynecology

    • Menstrual pain and irregularities

    • Pelvic and vaginal discomfort and infections

    • Breast exams

    • Menopause management

    • Gynecologic cancer screenings and pap testing

  • We help you and your family see better with world-class eye care for adults and children.

    Our services include:

    • Comprehensive eye exams

    • Corrective glasses and lenses

    • Frames

This health center receives HHS funding and has federal Public Health Service deemed status with respect to certain health or health-related claims, including medical malpractice claims, for itself and its covered individuals.

The Good Health Shuttle

It’s one of our founding principles: eliminating barriers to healthcare is as vital as providing the care. With homeless families increasingly isolated in unfamiliar and underserved locations, getting to a clinic is a formidable challenge. In response, The Floating Hospital provides free, round-trip vehicle transportation to patients residing in family homeless shelters or domestic violence safe houses throughout the five boroughs, and public housing developments in Northwest Queens. We provide MetroCards to qualifying patients who prefer to use public transit. Every year, our vehicles travel to hundreds of locations city-wide—and accumulate enough mileage to circle the globe 4.5 times.

Health Center locations

The Floating Hospital:
Main Clinic

21-01 41st Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101

Monday – Thursday, 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Friday 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Appointments:
718-784-2240, ext. 107

 

The Floating Hospital:
Queensbridge Health Center

10-29 41st Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Appointments:
718-361-6266

 

Service Animal Policy

The Floating Hospital welcomes service animals trained to perform specific tasks to assist individuals with disabilities. However, emotional support animals are not permitted in our facilities. We appreciate your understanding as we maintain a safe and inclusive environment for all patients and staff.

21-01 41st Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101

Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Phone: (914) 556-2511

Free prescription delivery is available.

Low-cost medication is available to our uninsured and under-insured customers through the 340B drug pricing program.

Shopping at our pharmacy supports our community charity work.