A Mission to Serve
With a continuing commitment to the highest standards of care, Lutheran Medical Center, a part of Lutheran HealthCare, believes that our primary reason for being is to serve our neighbors. Through values reflecting compassion, dignity, integrity, and service, Lutheran affirms its dedication to care for its neighbors and new immigrants. We define health as the total well-being of the community and its residents.
A Commitment to Community and Education
Founded in 1883 by Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess-Nurse, Sister Elisabeth Fedde, Lutheran HealthCare built a tradition of community service dedicated to compassionate care for struggling new immigrants in a neighborhood economically based on the Brooklyn waterfront. Lutheran works in partnership with its neighbors, each relying on the other as friends who care about and assist each other.
Lutheran HealthCare has achieved its goal to become a nationally recognized community-based teaching health care system. It includes Lutheran Medical Center–a 476 bed, Level I trauma hospital, the Augustana Lutheran Nursing Home, an innovative managed care program, the comprehensive Family Health Centers, and many outreach programs that are models in education, clinical care, and community service.
The Medical Center is the heart of a health system that anticipates and meets the rapidly changing needs of a multicultural community. Lutheran Medical Center, as part of an integrated health care system, understands a hospital not as just a collection of buildings, machines, and beds but as a staff of talented, creative, and committed people who serve the community as needed. Lutheran’s staff is culturally sensitive and linguistically competent, and many live in and near the communities it serves. At the same time, Lutheran developed an equal commitment to excellence in health professions education. In recent decades, Lutheran aggressively volunteered as a significant corporate presence in the community to stimulate renewal and constructive change, and to advocate for the health and well being of an entire urban area, Southwest Brooklyn.