Baby steps: Northwell newborns outpace nation
Anyone know a good sitter? Bucking national trends, Northwell Health is hip-deep in chubby cheeks and loaded diapers after delivering more than 40,000 bouncing babies in 2016. That projected 4…
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Northwell adds corneal crosslinking, Ned approves
By GREGORY ZELLER // The FDA has seen the light. So has Northwell Health. Now Ned Daily can, too. Daily, a Long Island-based photographer/videographer, was slowly losing his vision to…
Health system acquires busy Suffolk Surgery Center
New York State’s largest healthcare provider keeps getting larger, adding a busy surgical center to its satellite roster. Northwell Health has acquired a majority stake in the Suffolk Surgery Center,…
Savvy Hires, Northwell building autism ‘pipeline’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A startup recruiting firm with modernized methods for matching talent and opportunity has made significant headway on a potentially enormous – and socially conscious – vertical….
Irish eyes smile on new Northwell partnership
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new collaborative agreement with blessings from on high in Ireland’s national government will pair startups from the Emerald Isle with some of Long Island’s top…
At Northwell Health, putting their backs into it
By GREGORY ZELLER // Potential triggers for crippling backaches and revolutionary cancer treatments marked a big week for the human spine at Northwell Health. First, on Nov. 14, the health…
Northwell hospitals target pulmonary embolisms
Southside Hospital is now busting up blood clots with new tech that promises to shorten treatment time and reduce potential complications. Joining several sister hospitals throughout the Northwell Health system,…
Northwell cuts ribbon on liver-disease center
Northwell Health has raised the curtain on a new Manhasset facility dedicated to diseases of the liver. The health system officially opened the Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases…
Northwell, Stony Brook Med strike cardio deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // A state-of-the-art cardiac-care practice will lend three decades of expertise, more than a dozen heart specialists and a boatload of East End patients to Long Island’s…
Southside Hospital adds emergency helipad
A new helipad at Bay Shore’s Southside Hospital is adding some lift to Northwell Health’s regional emergency services. Already counted among the American Hospital Association’s “Most Wired” IT-savvy hospitals, Southside…
Super-scrubs: Northwell fights the forces of infection
They don’t come with capes or cowls, they’re not powered by an indestructible “arc reactor” and they can’t shrink surgeons to ant-size, but new super-suits are making heroic impressions on…
Northwell, Mayo Clinic tackle painkiller epidemic
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health will join the Mayo Clinic and one of the nation’s largest medical schools on a three-year study targeting painkiller addictions. Citing “a growing epidemic…
State OKs pediatric kidney transplants at Cohen
New York health officials have greenlighted a new pediatric kidney-transplant program at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. The state Department of Health has approved plans for a program to be housed…
Northwell fields new breast-surgery tracker
The Northwell Health Cancer Institute has begun use of a tiny tracking device, just cleared by the FDA, that pinpoints tumors in breast surgeries. The system, called the SAVI SCOUT,…
New director spearheads Northwell liver effort
Northwell Health’s drive for a new liver-transplant program kicked into gear Monday with the appointment of a new transplantation director. Lewis Teperman has been named the new vice chair of…