NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island is a hospital in

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, on

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. It is affiliated with NYU Langone Health and was founded in 1896 as Nassau Hospital and was later renamed to Winthrop-University Hospital.

Activities

It is ranked by '' U.S. News & World Report'' as one of the top-10

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hospitals. It is currently a 591-bed academic medical center which is an ACS verified Level 1 Trauma Center and certified Comprehensive stroke center. The hospital features more than 75 divisions of specialty care, offering inpatient and outpatient programs and services to address every stage of life. NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island also has a Research Institute that conducts robust research and studies that are helping to shape the future of medicine. The hospital, with ties to

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, blends the progressive philosophy and advances of a teaching and research institution with a personal approach to patient care that is the cornerstone of the organization. The NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island campus is also home to the new NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, a tuition-free school with an accelerated three-year curriculum devoted exclusively to training primary care physicians. It agreed to merge into the NYU Langone Health System in 2016.

History

The hospital was founded in 1896 as Long Island's first hospital. It was originally named Nassau Hospital, but the name was changed to Winthrop-University Hospital in 1985 due to confusion with Nassau County Medical Center. The name was chosen to honor the Winthrop family, including Robert Winthrop, an investment banker and former president of the hospital who was a descendant of

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, and his uncle and wife. In 1996, it became part of the Winthrop South Nassau University Health System, alongside South Nassau Communities Hospital (now Mount Sinai South Nassau). In 2003, the Winthrop South Nassau System became part of New York Presbyterian. In 2017, Winthrop became affiliated with NYU Langone, becoming NYU Winthrop. By 2019, a full asset merger between NYU and Winthrop had been complete. In November 2020, it was announced that the hospital changed its name to NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island. The details of the Winthrop South Nassau departure from New York Presbyterian are unclear. The details of the Winthrop-South Nassau breakup are also unclear, but the two hospitals are now affiliated with different health systems.

Notable patients

Births

* Nicholas Pusateri, American author of Sorcerer Wars novel series.

Deaths

* James Barton (1890–1962) * Duane Jones (1937–1988) *

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(1928–1994) * Cornelius W. Wickersham (1885–1968)

References

External links

NYU Langone Hospital–Long Island

NYU Long Island School of Medicine
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