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Demographics
St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital DemographicsSt. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center is located on Manhattan's West Side. The Roosevelt site is located on 59th and 10th Avenue and the St. Luke's site is on Amsterdam Avenue at 114th Street. St. Luke's-Roosevelt is one of the largest hospitals in New York City based on number of beds and annual admissions. Its emergency departments are two of four designated trauma centers in Manhattan. The hospital's service catchment is the largest in New York City with a population greater than the city of Denver. It extends from 34th to 142nd Streets and from Fifth Avenue to the Hudson River.
This catchment contains seven New York Police Department precincts; the 20th, 24th, 26th, 28th, Mid-Town North, Mid-Town South and Central Park police districts. Within these precincts are five college campuses: City College (CUNY), John Jay, Julliard, Fordham University, and the Columbia University complex (Columbia, Barnard, Manhattan School of Music, Jewish and Union Theological Seminaries). This high concentration of students in dorms and off-campus housing represents a transient young adult population (at least 40,000 additional people during the academic year), which is at high-risk for sexual victimization.
The Mid-Upper West Side has a registered resident population of more than three-quarter million with a heavily concentrated undocumented population residing from 120th to 145th Streets. Its ethnic composition breaks down roughly to 26% Caucasian, 34% African-American, 36% Latino and a rising 4% Asian population. Each year the total reported felonies (NYPD statistics exclude sexual assault) soar past the 50,000 mark.
This area also includes such traditionally high-crime areas as Times Square; Port Authority; Morningside Heights, Riverside and Central Parks; and the Harlem community. In addition, the Mid-Upper West Side holds many of New York City's oldest and largest public housing developments that are frequent crime targets such as Clinton, Frederick Douglas, Goddard-Riverside and Grant Houses. Furthermore, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital is located in an area of New York City with a higher than average number of residents who are elderly, homeless, mentally ill or AIDS patients (SLR is a NIH designated AIDS Center). For many of these people, victimization is the rule rather than the exception.
Crime Victims Treatment Center DemographicsCVTC is a comprehensive program that provides services to any victim of violence. The majority of our referrals (over 80%) are survivors of sexual assault or domestic violence. Each month, CVTC staff averages 65 new referrals and over 300 client visits.
Most of the clients seen by (the) CVTC are either residents of or were victimized in the St. Luke's-Roosevelt catchment area. However, a significant number have traveled from as far as Suffolk, Westchester, New Jersey and Connecticut to seek our services. The Center itself does not have a catchment and will not deny services based on residence criteria.
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