Northwell Health

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Northwell Health
Industry Health care
Founded Great Neck, New York, United States
1997 (1997)
Founder Merger of North Shore Health System and LIJ Medical Center
Headquarters Great Neck, New York, United States
Area served
 New York metropolitan area
Key people
 Michael J. Dowling, president and chief executive officer (since January 2002)
Services Hospital network
Number of employees
 More than 61,000
Divisions See prose
Website northwell.edu

Northwell Health, previously known as the North Shore-LIJ Health System, was founded in 1997 with the merger of the North Shore Health System and LIJ Medical Center, creating a healthcare network that now includes 21 hospitals, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, rehabilitation and skilled nursing facilities, a home care network, a hospice network and progressive care centers offering a range of outpatient services.

Headquartered in Great Neck, New York, Northwell Health is the largest integrated health system in New York State, based on patient revenue,[1] and the 14th largest healthcare system in the United States.[2] Its service area encompasses more than eight million people throughout the New York metropolitan area. With more than 61,000 employees, Northwell is the largest private employer in New York State.[3] It was rebranded as Northwell Health in January 2016.

Medical specialties

Hospitals

Tertiary (teaching) hospitals

Specialty care hospitals

Community hospitals

Affiliate hospitals

Strategic partners

Northwell Physician Partners

Northwell has more than 2,750 employed physicians and one of the nation's largest medical groups—Northwell Physician Partners.

Leadership

Michael J. Dowling has been the president and chief executive officer of Northwell since January 2002. Prior to that, Dowling served as Northwell's executive vice president and chief operating officer since October 1997, overseeing development, planning and operations following the merger that created the health system.

Executive Vice President Lawrence G. Smith, MD, MACP, is Northwell's physician-in-chief, the health system's senior physician on all clinical issues.

Senior Vice President David Battinelli, MD, is Northwell's chief medical officer, responsible for the overall professional management of clinical, education, research and operational issues related to all medical and clinical affairs throughout the health system.

Quality and public reporting

Northwell received The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum's John M. Eisenberg Award for Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality for reducing sepsis mortality by 50%.

In 2010, the health system received National Quality Forum's National Quality Healthcare Award for delivering safe, high quality, patient-centered care.

Also, Northwell is the recipient of the John Q. Sherman Award for Excellence in Patient Engagement from the National Patient Safety Foundation and EngagingPatients.org for standardizing processes for patient identification guided by input from patients and families.

The health system discloses its hospitals' quality performance data to the public on its web site which includes information on hospital-acquired infection rates; performance in treating patients for heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia; and success rates in performing cardiac bypass surgery and joint replacement surgeries. Patient satisfaction scores are also posted.

Research

An integral part of the Northwell Health System, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research is a disease-oriented biomedical research institution. It ranks among the nation's top six percent of all institutions that receive funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Corporate training

The Center for Learning and Innovation (CLI) , Lake Success, New York, is Northwell's corporate training which offers courses, programs and services for employees' personal and professional development.

CLI's Patient Safety Institute (PSI), Lake Success, New York, was established to reduce medical errors and hospital-acquired infections. Its full-scale patient simulators based on computer-based, interactive technology and digitally-enhanced mannequins enable instructors to replicate virtually any medical scenario. This gives medical students, surgical residents, nurses and other healthcare professionals the opportunity to practice clinical skills without risk to real patients.

Clinical education

As a clinical medical educational institution, Northwell is responsible for more than 1,600 residents and fellows, and 120 resident and fellow programs . More than 1,200 medical students rotate through health system facilities.

In 2011, Northwell partnered with Hofstra University to establish a new medical school on Hofstra's campus in Hempstead, New York. The Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine's first class of medical students began their studies in August 2011 and graduated in May 2015.

References

  1. ↑ IMS Top 100 Integrated Healthcare Networks 2012.
  2. ↑ . Healthcare Finance News
  3. ↑ . NewsMax Media

External links

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