Stony Brook University Hospital
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Stony Brook University Hospital is a hospital in Stony Brook, New York. A part of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, it is one of the largest hospitals on Long Island. Attached to the Hospital is the Health Sciences Center which houses many research laboratories as well as classrooms and facilities that provide instruction in numerous Health Sciences such as: Nursing, Medicine, Health Management and Social Welfare. The entire complex consists of three buildings, the Hospital, the Clinical Sciences Tower, and the Basic Sciences Health Tower.
Construction on the complex began in 1976, and the smallest building, the Basic Sciences Health Tower was completed that year. Two years later, the Clinical Sciences Tower was completed. Finally, in 1980, the Hospital itself was built. The complex of three buildings is located on the "East Campus", and is separated from the rest of Stony Brook University by Nicolls Road. The impressive heights of the buildings give them a dominating presence over the University skyline, and they can be seen from miles away across Suffolk County.
The hospital stands at 19 stories and has over 540 beds, and has ranked as one of the top hospitals in the Northeast, as well as one of the top teaching hospitals. The Health Sciences Center holds a Medical School, making Stony Brook one of the few public schools in New York to have its own medical school.
The hospital is by far the biggest hospital on the eastern end of Long Island. In December 2006 the Berger Commission in an attempt to streamline medical costs in New York State recommended the hospital formalize its affiliation with east end hospitals including Brookhaven Memorial Medical Center in Brookhaven, Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, Peconic Medical Center in Riverhead, and Southampton Hospital in Southampton[1]
A new Heart Center was opened inside the hospital in 2005, containing a new Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU), Cardiac Acute Care Unit (CACU), angioplasty suites (catheterization labs), and electrophysiology labs. While the new Heart Center has less than half the capacity of the prior cardiac units, it is much nicer and cleaner.
The Emergency Department began renovation in 2005, with expected completion in 2008. The new ED will be state-of-the-art, and have almost quadruple the capacity of the previous ED. Unfortunately, in a great oversight, the operating suite, adjacent to the ED, will expand into the current ED before the ED expands out. This will actually decrease capacity for between one and two years.
Stony Brook University Hospital officially changed its name in 2006 to Stony Brook University Medical Center to reflect its diversity of both inpatient and outpatient medical care.
