North Shore University Hospital

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North Shore University Hospital (often called "North Shore Manhasset" or often abbreviated to "NSUH") is the teaching hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York University School of Medicine. North Shore Manhasset is the flagship hospital of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. North Shore University Hospital is also home to the Feinstein Institute of Medical Research.

[edit] History

[edit] The Hospital

The groundbreaking ceremony of North Shore Hospital was held on a clear sunny morning on May 6, 1951. The hospital was built on 12 acres of land donated by John Hay Whitney from his "Greentree" estate on Valley Road (now Community Drive). The groundbreaking was held with all the pageantry and patriotism of the time. Tex and Jinx McCrary did their weekly radio show from the hospital site and NBC-TV televised the event. With an inpatient capacity of 169 beds, the hospital opened its doors to patients on July 27, 1953. The addition of the Payson-Whitney Pavilion in 1963 increased the inpatient capacity of the hospital to a total of 286 beds. Between 1969 and 1976, the hospital underwent many structural changes as the Cohen Pavilion and the Levitt Ambulatory Care Clinic were created. Additionally, the Payson-Whitney Pavilion grew to ten stories gaining its current name the Payson-Whitney Tower (now just Tower Pavilion). This brought the inpatient capacity of the hospital to a total of 512 beds. In 1992, the opening of the Don Monti Pavilion resulted in the current inpatient capacity of 731 beds. In 2006, North Shore University Hospital named its campus in honor of its greatest benefactor and trustee, Sandra Atlas Bass.

[edit] The Health System

In 1990 the hospital expanded its borders beyond the current campus when the The Community Hospital at Glen Cove (now Glen Cove Hospital - The Mildred and Frank Feinberg Campus) merged with North Shore University Hospital forming the North Shore Health System. The North Shore Health System continued to expand its borders to other communities on Long Island over the next several years as Franklin Hospital Medical Center, Central General Hospital (now Plainview Hospital) and LaGuardia Hospital (now Forest Hills Hospital) merged with the North Shore Health System. In 1997, North Shore Health System Chairman Saul Katz, North Shore Health System CEO Jack Gallagher, Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJ) Chairman Roy Zuckerberg and LIJ President Dr. David Dantzker signed an agreement to merge the two largest medical centers on Long Island. This merger resulted in the third largest secular non-profit healthcare system in the United States, the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. The Health System encompasses 15 hospitals, four long-term-care facilities, four home care agencies, and a hospice care network. In addition, the system includes specialty centers for women’s health care, orthopedics and sports medicine, family care centers and dozens of outreach and medical centers.

[edit] Academics

North Shore Hospital transformed from a community hospital to a major academic center in 1969 after it formed an affiliation with Cornell University Medical College (now Weill Medical College of Cornell University) and changed its name to North Shore University Hospital. In 1994, the hospital forged a new academic affiliation with NYU School of Medicine. Its current affiliation with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine began after its merger with Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJ). LIJ Medical Center is the Long Island Campus of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. North Shore University Hospital also has formal agreements for student clinical rotations with SUNY Downstate Medical Center, SUNY Health Science Center at Stony Brook and New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.

In addition to undergraduate medical education, the health system provides graduate medical education to over 1200 residents and fellows through its 90 residency and fellowship training programs.

[edit] Research

New York Gov. Mario Coumo with the Monti Family at opening of the Don Monti Memorial Pavilion, 1992, NS-LIJ Medical Media Productions

Located on the the campus of North Shore University Hospital, the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research conducts basic and clinical research. It is in the top six percentile of all institutions that receive funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its research programs are world-renowned especially in the areas of autoimmune diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, sepsis and psychiatric diseases. The annual operating budget of the institute is approximately $50,000,000 and includes a NIH designated General Clinical Research Center (GCRC). The institute can award PhD degrees in molecular medicine to candidates who already hold a medical degree and choose to pursue a career in clinical transitional research.

[edit] Patient care

The hospital admits over 61,000 patients each year. The surgical staff performs over 27,000 operations yearly. The obstetrics service handles over 5,700 births each year. Approximately 4,700 gynecologic procedures are performed annually at the hospital.

North Shore University Hospital is the only Long Island hospital, and one of only three in New York State, ranked among the nations top 50 hospitals for cardiac services and heart surgery by U.S. News and World Report. Further, Money magazine has ranked the cardiac services among the best in the nation and according to New York State’s latest report; the hospital has one of the lowest risk adjusted mortality rates for angioplasty in the New York State.

[edit] Recognition

The hospital has been recognized by several external organizations and agencies for excellence and patient care:

• Ranked number one hospital on Long Island by Newsday
• Number one hospital in New York State for survival rate among heart patients who have undergone angioplasty
• Number one hospital in America, by AARP Modern Maturity magazine, the largest circulation magazine in the United States
• Solucient’s 100 Top Hospitals for recognition as a major teaching hospital for the first time by Modern HealthCare Magazine