Northwell Health

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Northwell Health

Logo since 2017
Formerly	North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
Company type	Private
Industry	Health care
Founded	Great Neck, New York, U.S. 1997;28 years ago (1997)
Founder	Merger of North Shore Health System and LIJ Medical Center
Headquarters	New Hyde Park, New York , U.S.
Number of locations	28
Area served	New York metropolitan area
Key people	Michael J. Dowling, president and chief executive officer (since January 2002)
Products	Healthcare and medical
Services	Hospital network
Number of employees	105,000+
Website	www.northwell.edu

Northwell Health is a nonprofit integrated healthcare network that is New York State's largest healthcare provider and private employer, with more than 105,000 employees. ^[1]

The flagship hospitals of Northwell are North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJ Medical Center). The healthcare network is also headquartered on Long Island, in New Hyde Park, Nassau County.

History

In the 1990's North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset began to expand, first purchasing Glen Cove Hospital in 1990 which formed North Shore Health Systems Inc. Throughout the decade the health network began to purchase other surrounding hospitals and by 1997 had a total of 10 hospitals spanning from Staten Island to Suffolk County, New York. ^[2]

In 1997 North Shore Health Systems merged with Long Island Jewish Medical Center forming the "North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System" after a failed attempt by the United States Department of Justice to block the two health networks from doing so. ^[3] In September of 2015 the health system announced it would be changing its name to Northwell Health. ^[4]

More recently, the company signed a deal with software technology company Playback Health, to launch platforms for patient medical information to retain their healthcare data. ^[5]

In April 2022, Northwell Health announced it will be providing telemedicine support of around 18,000 pounds (8,200 kg) of medical supplies to the front-line regions of Ukraine to aid in the humanitarian crisis. ^[6]

In May 2025, it was announced that Northwell's planned merger with Nuvance Health was completed. The health system would continue operating under the Northwell name and it marks the first time the health system would operate beyond New York. ^[7]

Billing Controversy

On 12 April 2024, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that her office secured more than 1 million dollars from Northwell after they deceptively advertised that three of their emergency departments were COVID-19 testing sites. The health system would bill the claim as an ER visit even though the only care that some received was having been administered a COVID test. Others who sought care at their ERs for other issues were charged for the COVID test as well as the ER visit, despite federal and state laws prohibiting the billing of COVID-19 tests and related services. Northwell paid about $650,000 in penalties to the state and refunded about $400,000 to around 2,000 patients. ^[8]

Hospitals

The following hospitals and medical facilities are part of Northwell Health. ^[9]

Name		Location	County or Borough	Opened
	Cohen Children's Medical Center	New Hyde Park	Queens	1983
	Danbury Hospital	Danbury	Fairfield	1885
	Glen Cove Hospital	Glen Cove	Nassau	1921
	Huntington Hospital	Huntington	Suffolk	1916
	Lenox Health Greenwich Village	Greenwich Village	Manhattan	2014
	Lenox Hill Hospital	Upper East Side	Manhattan	1857
	Long Island Jewish Medical Center	Lake Success	Nassau	1954
	Long Island Jewish Forest Hills	Forest Hills	Queens	1953
	Long Island Jewish Valley Stream	Malverne	Nassau	1963
	Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital	Upper East Side	Manhattan	1869
	Mather Hospital	Port Jefferson	Suffolk	1929
	New Milford Hospital	New Milford	Litchfield	1921
	North Shore University Hospital	Manhasset	Nassau	1953
	Northern Duchess Hospital	Rhinebeck	Dutchess
	Northern Westchester Hospital	Mount Kisco	Westchester	1916
	Norwalk Hospital	Norwalk	Fairfield	1893
	Peconic Bay Medical Center	Riverhead	Suffolk	1951
	Phelps Hospital	Sleepy Hollow	Westchester	1955
	Putnam Hospital	Carmel	Putnam	1964
	Plainview Hospital	Plainview	Nassau	1961
	South Oaks Hospital	Amityville	Suffolk
	South Shore University Hospital	Bay Shore	Suffolk	1911
	Sharon Hospital	Sharon	Litchfield	1909
	Staten Island University Hospital North & South	South Beach and Prince's Bay	Staten Island	1861
	Syosset Hospital	Syosset	Nassau	1962
	Vassar Brothers Medical Center	Poughkeepsie	Dutchess	1882
	Zucker Hillside Hospital	Glen Oaks	Queens	1926

SkyHealth

SkyHealth is an air ambulance service which is jointly owned by Northwell and the Yale New Haven Health System. ^[10] It currently operates two Eurocopter EC135 helicopters each staffed with a pilot, critical-care nurse and paramedic which have full ICU ^[11] capabilities. The service launched with one helicopter on November 14th, 2014 ^[12] which is operated by Med-Trans and is based out of Long Island MacArthur Airport. In February of 2023, a second helicopter was launched which is operated by Three Wing Aviation, based out of Sikorsky Memorial Airport. ^[13] SkyHealth were featured in the Netflix docu-series Emergency NYC.

Northwell Nurse Choir

In 2020, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a choir was formed consisting of eighteen nurses who had worked on the frontline to aid those affected by the virus. Created to support the nonprofit Nurse Heroes group, the members performed virtually in order to ensure safety . ^{[14] [15]} The group came to prominence in 2021 when they auditioned on the 16th season of America's Got Talent . ^[16]

References

1. "About us".
2. "After Merger's Bumpy Start, North Shore-L.I.J. Is Clicking".
3. "U.S. Sues to Block Merger Plan of 2 Long Island Hospitals".
4. "North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System changes name to Northwell Health".
5. "Northwell Health signs deal, launches platform for patient medical information". Modern Healthcare. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
6. "Northwell Health Deploys Telemedicine to Ukraine's Eastern Front". Business Wire. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
7. "Northwell Health completes merger with Nuvance Health".
8. "Attorney General James Secures More Than $1 Million from Northwell Health for Deceptively Advertising COVID-19 Testing Sites".
9. "Locations | Northwell Health". northwell.edu. Archived from the original on 16 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
10. "Vitality A PUBLICATION ABOUT YOUR HEALTH from NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL and LIJ MEDICAL CENTER" (PDF). p. 11.
11. "SkyHealth".
12. "North Shore-LIJ, Yale-New Haven Health Launch New York Area's First Hospital-Based Medical Helicopter Program".
13. "Yale New Haven 'SkyHealth' helicopter takes flight in Stratford".
14. "Choir of nurses brings audience, judges to feet with AGT performance". Fox 8 Cleveland WJW. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
15. "The Northwell Health Nurse Choir | Northwell Health". northwell.edu. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
16. Weldon, Rose (9 June 2021). "Northwell nurse choir heads to 'America's Got Talent' finals - Entertainment". The Island Now. Retrieved 19 August 2021.

External links

• Official website

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