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Northwell Health, New York City Public Schools Announce Innovative Healthcare High School To Address Local Healthcare Workforce Shortages With Support From Bloomberg Philanthropies

LIMG February 15, 2024

Northwell Health and New York City Public Schools announced today an unprecedented partnership to design a career-focused high school that will help prepare students for well-paying careers in healthcare and address local education and healthcare talent needs. The Northwell School of Health

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Northwell Health Wins Five Press Ganey Awards For Patient And Consumer Experience

LIMG February 5, 2024

Northwell Health, two of its hospitals and two of its outpatient facilities were named a 2023 Human Experience (HX) Guardian of Excellence Award winner by Press Ganey. The awards place Northwell in the top 5 percent for patient and consumer experience among healthcare providers. Press Ganey is the global leader in healthcare experience solutions and […]

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Healthgrades Ranks 3 Northwell Health Hospitals Among Best In Country

LIMG January 23, 2024

Three Northwell Health hospitals were named among the best in the country by Healthgrades, the leading resource consumers use to find a hospital or doctor. Multiple other Northwell hospitals were also ranked among the best in New York in various specialties by Healthgrades. Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan was named one of the 50 best […]

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Northwell Appoints Kidney Transplant Leader

LIMG January 22, 2024

Northwell Health today announced the appointment of Niraj Desai, MD, a renowned adult and pediatric transplant surgeon, as director of the kidney transplant program at the Northwell Health Transplant Institute. Dr. Desai is an innovator in expanding the availability of viable organs, advocating for the transplantation of organs from older donors and as well as […]

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Northwell Health Named To Becker’s 2023 “Hospitals And Health Systems With Spine And Neuroscience Programs To Know”

LIMG December 21, 2023

Northwell Health was recently named to the 2023 “Hospitals and health systems with spine and neuroscience programs to know” by Becker’s Hospital Review. Northwell was one of only 70 hospitals and health systems nationwide to make the list. According to Becker’s, the institutions on the list are nationally recognized for their spine and neuroscience programs. […]

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Northwell Physicians Recommend RSV Vaccine For Baby’s Safety

LIMG December 20, 2023

Long Island mom Lauren Charles has seen what respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) can do to an infant. RSV is responsible for more than 50,000 pediatric hospitalizations across the United States each year. Ms. Charles’ own daughter, struggling to breathe, landed in the emergency department at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in 2022 with RSV. The infant […]

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Local Artist Brings “Happy Art” To Cohen Children’s Medical Center

LIMG December 15, 2023

It’s said that one picture is worth a thousand words, and no one agrees more than Corey Paige, CEO and founder of New York-based Corey Paige Designs. Prior to unveiling her original mural, entitled “Colorful Connection,” at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Ms. Paige worked with a small group of patients as they expressed their innermost […]

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Nassau Police Officers Drop By For Holiday Cheer At Cohen Children’s

LIMG December 12, 2023

They weren’t wearing costumes, but they definitely are superheroes. The compassionate group of Nassau County Police Department’s Emergency Services Unit’s (ESU) elite rappelling team visited Cohen Children’s Medical Center on December 9 to entertain the children taking it all in from their hospital rooms. The effort, known as “Operation Holiday Cheer,” succeeded in its