The Language Bank, a division of the Interpreter Corps, is a group of Columbia-Presbyterian staff from throughout the medical center who can be called upon when other interpreters are unavailable. Currently, Language Bank members can assist with 41 different languages. Library and Book Cart Located on the second floor of the Milstein Hospital Building, the Milbank Library has over 6,000 volumes in English and other languages. Books may be checked out for the duration of a patient's hospital stay. Books are returned through book boxes located on each floor.
Hospital volunteers are available to read to patients with impaired vision.
Mail is forwarded Monday through Friday from the mail room to the nursing unit indicated on the patient's file. After patients are discharged, their mail is forwarded to their homes. Outgoing mail may be deposited at any nursing station for collection Monday through Friday. Services are held in the medical center's nonsectarian chapel, the Pauline A. Hartford Memorial Chapel, which can be entered from the Garden or from the first floor of the Presbyterian Hospital Building. To attend a service, please first consult your physician, then notify a member of the nursing staff, who will arrange for an escort to and from the chapel.