St. Joseph’s Health Welcomes Board-Certified Pulmonary and Critical Care Specialist

SYRACUSE, N.Y.— St. Joseph’s Health is pleased to welcome Dr. Subrat Khanal, MBBS, to St. Joseph’s Health Hospital. In his role, Dr. Khanal will provide patients with high quality, personalized health care.

Prior to moving to the United States, Dr. Khanal worked as Medical Officer in Intensive Care Units and emergency rooms at several hospitals in Nepal. There, he provided medical care to Nepal’s ageing and progressively sicker population, often under high pressure situations.

"I see St. Joseph’s Health the ideal place to combine my love for medicine and my passion to help people and the community,” said Dr. Khanal. “This is and has been my dream job since I first started thinking about a career and I can't wait to get started."

Dr. Khanal holds his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from B.P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Nepal. He completed his residency and fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He is double board-certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Disease.

A physician with a passion for helping others, Dr. Khanal volunteered in earthquake-devastated areas doing relief work such as first aid intervention, immunizing children, and transporting critically wounded victims. He also participated in humanitarian work through the Nepal Red Cross Society.

Dr. Khanal is seeing inpatients at St. Joseph’s Health Hospital and is also accepting new Pulmonary patients at his practice, St. Joseph’s Physicians Pulmonology, located at 7250 Janus Park Dr., Liverpool, N.Y. To schedule an appointment at this office, please call 315-475-8402.

About St. Joseph’s Health

“St. Joseph’s Health is a non-profit health care system based in Syracuse, NY. St. Joseph’s has been an innovative leader in health care since our founding in 1869 as the first hospital open to the public in the city of Syracuse. Offering primary, specialty, and home care, a Magnet-recognized hospital, and collaboration with community partners, St. Joseph's Health advances the well-being of the communities we serve through an expanding range of services to ensure our patients achieve optimum long-term health. St. Joseph’s is one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Surgery and one of America’s 100 Best for Spine Surgery and Coronary Intervention according to Healthgrades. It is ranked by Consumer Reports among the top 15 heart surgery centers in the country, a designated Stroke Center, and a U.S. News “Best Regional Hospital.” St. Joseph’s Health is affiliated with St. Joseph’s Physicians and is a member of Trinity Health. For more information, visit www.sjhsyr.org/legacy.”

About Trinity Health

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 25 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 88 hospitals, 131 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 125 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. Based in Livonia, Michigan, its annual operating revenue is $20.2 billion with $1.2 billion returned to its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs.

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