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1961 |
NSH affiliates with the Adelphi School of Nursing; nursing students come to North Shore for additional training Central General Hospital opens in Plainview Staten Island Hospital turns 100 |
Volunteers from the Lake Success B'nai Brith donate books for the patient library at North Shore Hospital. County Photo Service, 1966 | 1963 |
Franklin General Hospital opens NSH opens the Payson-Whitney Pavilion in honor of two key supporters. The expansion adds 117 beds |
1967 |
LIJ opens the Hearing and Speech Center in conjunction with the Long Island Hearing & Speech Society. It was the first hospital-based center for hearing impairment on Long Island |
A Hillside patient at work in the Hospital's Vocational Rehabilitation department, ca 1975. |
1971 |
NSH opens the Rose & Wilfred P. Cohen Extended Care Pavilion, providing 122 beds for continuing and rehabilitative care |
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1973 |
NSH is renamed North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) to acknowledge its role as a major academic medical center Franklin Hospital converts from a privately owned to a community hospital |
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1976 |
NSUH opens the ten-story Payson-Whitney Tower, which includes 176 new beds, an auditorium, and an expanded medical library
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| 1962 | Community Hopital at Glen Cove opens its new Richard Derby Laboratory, honoring the physician who helped found the hospital and served as Chief of Surgery |  |
1964 |
LIJ affiliates with the NY City-owned Queens Hospital Center, providing doctors and residents to the 1400-bed facility |
1968 | LIJ completes its expansion with the opening of four new patient floors, a teaching center, and a Research Building
LaGuardia Hospital opens in Forest Hills, NY |
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1972 |
Hillside Hospital merges with LIJ, formalizing the long working relationship between the two institutions Community Hospital at Glen Cove celebrates its 50th anniversary |
Edward Orzac, MD (L).one of Franklin Hospital's founding physicians, demonstrates an audiometer to hospital administrator Albert Dicker. 1974. |
1974 |
LIJ and the Children's Medical Fund begin a campagin to build a 150-bed children's hospital at LIJ |
1977 |
ELIH opens a new wing that includes an ICU-CCU area, operating suites, and a helicopter landing pad |
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Syosset Community Hospital opens | 1965 | Southampton Hospital completes its new southwest wing
LIJ begins a $15 million expansion program |
1969 | NSH affiliates with Cornell Medical College, creating the Long Island campus of the prestigious academic institution |
Don Monti Memorial Cancer Foundation is created at NSH to raise funds for cancer research |
1975 | Southampton Hospital opens its new Northwest Wing | A junior volunteer at LIJ works in the Microbiology Laboratory under the watchful eye of a technologist. James Pozarik Photos, 1977. | 1979 | Staten Island Hospital opens its new north campus on Seaview Avenue with 475 beds |
