{"id":91139,"date":"2026-01-06T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/91139\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:58:06","slug":"nyc-health-hospitals-welcomes-first-baby-of-2026-at-elmhurst-location-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/91139\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Health + Hospitals welcomes first baby of 2026 at Elmhurst location \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Parents Janneth Marcatoma and Jose Bunay with their newborn Liam Steven Bunay Marcatoma, who was the first baby delivered by NYC Health + Hospitals in 2026.<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of NYC Health + Hospitals<\/p>\n

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NYC Health + Hospitals<\/a> delivered its first baby of 2026 at its Elmhurst<\/a> location at 3:29 a.m. on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

Parents Jose Bunay and Janneth Marcatoma welcomed their third child, Liam Steven Bunay Marcatoma, at the hospital, located at 79-01 Broadway in Elmhurst<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Janneth Marcatoma gave birth to Liam Steven Bunay Marcatoma in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2026, at NYC Health + Hospitals\/Elmhurst, marking the first baby to be born in the hospital system this year. Photo courtesy of NYC Health + Hospitals<\/p>\n

The newborn weighed in at 9 pounds, 5.7 ounces and 52 centimeters.<\/p>\n

NYC Health + Hospitals has 11 locations across New York City, including two in Queens. The public healthcare system delivers approximately 17,000 babies a year, with the Elmhurst Hospital accounting for around 2,000 of these deliveries.<\/p>\n

The hospital system prides itself on providing patients with expert prenatal care, labor and delivery services, family planning, comprehensive gynecology, women\u2019s health and primary care outpatient medical support for women at every stage of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parents Janneth Marcatoma and Jose Bunay with their newborn Liam Steven Bunay Marcatoma, who was the first baby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,43197,1977,64],"class_list":["post-91139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-health-hospitals-elmhurst","tag-nyc-health-hospitals","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}