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Scope

  • Nation's second-largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system, based on number of beds
  • Nation's 16th-largest, integrated healthcare network, based on net patient revenue, and the largest in New York State
  • Service area of 7 million people in Long Island, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island
  • Recipient of the National Quality Forum's 2010 National Quality Healthcare Award
  • Recipient of The Joint Commission’s Codman Award, the first health system to attain this distinction
  • Recipient of Healthcare Association of New York State’s (HANYS) Pinnacle Award
  • Home of the largest “corporate university” in the healthcare industry – the Center for Learning and Innovation
  • Nursing school affiliations with 15 colleges and universities
  • Recipient of J.D. Power and Associates’ Distinguished Hospital designation at Syosset Hospital

Economic Impact

 

  • More than $5.7 billion annual operating budget
  • More than 42,000 employees — the largest employer on Long Island and the ninth-largest in New York City
  • More than 9,000 physicians
  • More than 10,000 nurses
  • 772 medical students
  • More than 1,230 medical residents and fellows
  • More than 3,900 nursing students
  • More than 3,200 volunteers

2009 Operating Statistics

 

  • More than 5,600 hospital and long-term care beds*
  • About 4 million patient contacts
  • 25,100 babies delivered
  • 278,000 inpatients treated
  • 137,000 ambulatory surgeries performed
  • 605,000 emergency visits
  • 817,000 home care visits
  • 1,200 clinical research studies
  • 2,115 community education programs
  • 67,100 ambulance transports

     

*Does not include affiliate organizations

 

 

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Last Update

August 23, 2010
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