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It’s a new chapter for this Suffolk County hospital.
The merger between Long Island Community Hospital and NYU Langone Health is complete.
The process began in July 2021, when NYU Langone announced plans to affiliate with the Suffolk hospital, later moving toward a full merger.
The goal was to further extend NYU Langone’s healthcare network into eastern Long Island and expand services for the more than 400,000 people served by (what was) East Patchogue’s Long Island Community Hospital.
“[This] agreement publicly confirms our confidence that an affiliation will allow both of our institutions to collaborate and share best practices to better meet the healthcare needs of the communities we serve,” said Robert I. Grossman, MD, dean and CEO of NYU Langone Health, at the time.
Since the merger became official, the hospital has expanded its services, adding robotic surgery and gynecologic oncology, enhancing vascular, surgical, gastroenterology, and orthopedic care, and improving key outcomes such as length of stay and infection rates, according to a hospital spokesperson.
This is NYU Langone’s easternmost location, with its other hospitals in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Mineola. It also marks NYU Langone’s seventh hospital.
Now, with the merger complete, the 306-bed Suffolk County hospital has a new name.
Long Island Community Hospital will be renamed NYU Langone Hospital — Suffolk.
The hospital was previously known as Brookhaven Memorial Hospital before being renamed Long Island Community Hospital in 2018. It remained the only independent hospital in the region, though Stony Brook Medicine had previously attempted a merger before that deal fell through.
