Northwell Health

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Northwell Health
FormerlyNorth 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,
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)
ProductsHealthcare 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]

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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]

NameLocationCounty or BoroughOpened
Cohen Children's Medical Center New Hyde Park Queens 1983
Danbury Hospital (53563760592).jpg Danbury Hospital Danbury Fairfield 1885
Glen Cove Hospital 2021b.jpg Glen Cove Hospital Glen Cove Nassau 1921
Huntington Hospital; Old Building from across Park Avenue.jpg Huntington Hospital Huntington Suffolk 1916
StVincents.jpg Lenox Health Greenwich Village Greenwich Village Manhattan 2014
Lenox Hill Hospital Park Av jeh.jpg Lenox Hill Hospital Upper East Side Manhattan 1857
LIJ Zuckerberg pavilion fr eastern lawn jeh.jpg Long Island Jewish Medical Center Lake Success Nassau 1954
Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital.jpeg Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Forest Hills Queens 1953
Valley Stream Hospital, North Valley Stream, New York December 30, 2022 A.jpg Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Malverne Nassau 1963
Manhattan-eye.jpg Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital Upper East Side Manhattan1869
John Mather Memorial Hospital; Port Jeff.jpg Mather Hospital Port Jefferson Suffolk1929
New Milford Hospital New Milford Litchfield County 1921
NSUH.jpg North Shore University Hospital Manhasset Nassau 1953
Northern Duchess Hospital Rhinebeck Dutchess County
Northern Westchester Hospital Emergency Department.jpg Northern Westchester Hospital Mount Kisco Westchester 1916
NorwalkCTNorwalkHospital09052007.JPG Norwalk Hospital Norwalk Fairfield 1893
Peconic Bay Medical Center Riverhead Suffolk1951
Phelps Hospital Sleepy Hollow Westchester1955
Putnam Hospital Carmel Putnam 1964
NSLIJ Plainview Hospital.jpg Plainview Hospital Plainview Nassau1961
South Oaks Hospital Amityville Suffolk
South Shore University Hospital Bay Shore Suffolk1911
Sharon Hospital Sharon Litchfield 1909
SIUH South jeh.JPG 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, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Glen Oaks, New York, United States.jpg Zucker Hillside Hospital Glen Oaks Queens1926

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.

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