Flushing Hospital Medical Center (also known as Flushing Hospital) [1] is one of the oldest hospitals in New York City. [2] It survived a 1999 bankruptcy [3] and subsequently affiliated first with the New York Presbyterian Hospital and then with the MediSys Health Network. The hospital is also currently affiliated with the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine to provide clinical rotations for the college's osteopathic medicine students. [4]
Established in 1884, [5] in 1951 the hospital celebrated the birth of its 5,000th baby. [6]
By 1993 Flushing Hospital was described as "an unaffiliated community hospital that is struggling financially." [2] On that basis, the hospital affiliated with Preferred Health Network, [7] then-described as "a network of hospitals and health centers based in Brooklyn."
A voluntary hospital, Flushing's nursing staff was particularly affected in early 2012 by financial difficulties, [8] having been listed in 2011 as being among six NYC hospitals "in critical condition" - at the time it was part of the MediSys Health Network. [9]
The hospital's original major building, constructed in 1913, was demolished in 1975. [5]
MediSys Health Network owns and operates Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and Flushing Hospital Medical Center. [10] [11] Its prior affiliations and management include the New York Presbyterian Healthcare Network. [12]
Parsons Hospital became a division of Flushing. [13] the latter was acquired by New York Hospital in April 1996. [14]
The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City affiliated with two Ivy League medical schools, Cornell University and Columbia University. The hospital comprises two distinct medical centers, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center. As of 2021, the hospital is ranked as the seventh best hospital in the United States and best in the New York City metropolitan area by U.S. News & World Report.
The NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System is a network of independent, cooperating, acute-care and community hospitals, continuum-of-care facilities, home-health agencies, ambulatory sites, and specialty institutes in the New York metropolitan area. As of 2014, the System was the largest receiver of Medicare payments in the United States.
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian is a women's and children's hospital at 3959 Broadway, near West 165th Street, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is a part of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The hospital treats patients aged 0–21 from New York City and around the world. The hospital features a dedicated regional ACS designated pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center and is named after financial firm Morgan Stanley, which largely funded its construction through philanthropy.
The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) is a private medical school in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Bradenton, Florida, DeFuniak Springs, Florida and Elmira, New York. Founded in 1992, LECOM confers medical (D.O.), dental (DMD), pharmacy (PharmD), as well as master's degrees in the health sciences. LECOM operates one of the few accelerated three-year pharmacy programs in the country, and is one of 2 pharmacy schools in the country with a distance education program.
The New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYIT-COM) is a private medical school located primarily in Old Westbury, New York. It also has a degree-granting campus in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Founded in 1977, NYIT-COM is an academic division of the New York Institute of Technology. Formerly the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, it is one of the largest medical schools in the United States.
The Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM) is a private medical school with a main campus in the neighborhood of Central Harlem in New York City and an additional campus in Middletown, New York. It is a division of Touro College and University System.
Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, formerly known as Rockaway Beach Hospital and Peninsula General Hospital, was a community hospital in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, New York. PHC, founded in 1908, which opened on April 30, 1911, was an affiliate of the MediSys Health Network at the time of its 2012 closure.
The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) medical services provider in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. Brookdale's primary and secondary service areas together comprise 1 million residents. It serves most of Eastern Brooklyn: Brownsville, East New York, Canarsie and East Flatbush.
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is a 350-bed teaching hospital located in the Wyckoff Heights section of Bushwick, Brooklyn in New York City. The hospital is an academic affiliate of the NewYork-Presbyterian's Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, the New York Medical College and New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. The primary goal of the center is to train future physicians that are qualified medically and personably.
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center is a 537-bed non-profit teaching hospital located in West Islip, New York. The hospital contains 100 nursing home beds, and operates a Level II trauma center. Good Samaritan Hospital opened in May 1959, and has expanded several times since opening. It has been Magnet-designed for its quality nursing since 2006, and is a member of Catholic Health Services of Long Island. The hospital is also a major regional clinical campus for clinical clerkships and postgraduate medical training affiliated with the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, one of the largest medical schools in the United States.
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, stylized as NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens, is a not-for-profit acute care and teaching hospital in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens in New York City. Formerly operating as Booth Memorial Hospital and New York Hospital Queens (NYHQ), it is located on the northeast corner of Main Street and Booth Memorial Avenue.
St Barnabas Hospital is a non-profit teaching hospital founded in 1866. The hospital is located in the Belmont neighborhood of The Bronx in New York City. It is a level II adult trauma center and is a major clinical affiliate for clinical clerkship of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center is a private, non-profit teaching hospital and emergency facility in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York City, on the service road of the Van Wyck Expressway at Jamaica Avenue. The hospital is a clinical campus of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine and provides clinical clerkship education for the college's osteopathic medical students.
MediSys Health Network is a 1995-established healthcare service provider that also manages medical facilities. It is best known for operating Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, and Flushing Hospital.
Jackson Heights Hospital was a "small community hospital" in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City. It opened in 1935 as Physicians Hospital, was sold and renamed in the 1990s, and subsequently closed. The hospital was torn down, and the site is now a public school.
New York Community Hospital is a hospital in Brooklyn, NY that was founded in 1929 by two brothers, both doctors. The hospital has been renamed several times before becoming part of New York-Presbyterian Hospital in 1997. They more recently partnered with Maimonides Medical Center. The hospital, which was described as "One Address, Many Hospitals" due to changing names, offers Kosher meals to patients.
Hillcrest General Hospital was opened around 1962 by a physician who "was chief of medicine there for 25 years." Hillcrest, a private hospital, was then sold to an investor, who leased it to Osteopathic Hospital and Clinic. Osteopathic previously had acquired another hospital to which they subsequently relocated, and the 5-story building became St. Joseph's Hospital in 1985.
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