Patient Care Highlight: Burn Center

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The first full service burn center in the New York metropolitan area opens in December. A 1977 expansion of the facility, which includes the FDNY Skin Bank, makes it the largest burn center in the country.

Later, in 1998, the burn center is renamed William Randolph Hearst Burn Center.

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1976 to 1977

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