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| Formerly | North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System |
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| 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 | 21 |
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 | 85,000+ |
| Website | www |
Northwell Health is a nonprofit integrated healthcare network that is New York State's largest healthcare provider and private employer, with more than 85,000 employees.[1]
The flagship hospitals of Northwell areNorth Shore University Hospital andLong Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJ Medical Center). The healthcare network is also headquartered onLong Island, inNew Hyde Park,Nassau County.
In the 1990'sNorth Shore University Hospital inManhasset began to expand, first purchasingGlen 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 fromStaten Island toSuffolk County, New York.[2]
In 1997 North Shore Health Systems merged withLong Island Jewish Medical Center forming the "North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System" after a failed attempt by theUnited 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]
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 around $400,000 to about 2,000 patients.[7]
The following hospitals and medical facilities are part of Northwell Health. All locations are in New York.[8]
SkyHealth is anair ambulance service which is jointly owned by Northwell and theYale New Haven Health System.[9] It currently operates twoEurocopter EC135 helicopters each staffed with a pilot, critical-care nurse and paramedic which have fullICU[10] capabilities. The service launched with one helicopter on November 14th, 2014[11] which is operated by Med-Trans and is based out ofLong Island MacArthur Airport. In February of 2023, a second helicopter was launched which is operated by Three Wing Aviation, based out ofSikorsky Memorial Airport.[12] SkyHealth were featured in the Netflix docu-seriesEmergency NYC.
In 2020, during the ongoingCOVID-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 .[13][14] The group came to prominence in 2021 when they auditioned on the16th season ofAmerica's Got Talent.[15]
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