The New York City Council dedicated $5.5 million to build a surgery center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst in the city's Queens borough, Patch reports.
What you should know:
1. The hospital will build the surgery center in 2020.
2. The center will include an operating room and four procedure rooms.
3. Center physicians will provide gastroenterology and urology-related treatments.
4. Residents in the surrounding Queens community have disproportionately high numbers of gastroenterology and urological-related conditions.