Training Sites
Long Island Jewish Medical Center (New Hyde Park, NY)
The Long Island Jewish Medical Center Emergency Department treats 80,000 patients per year. Of these over 36% are admitted to the hospital: they constitute over 35% of total annual admissions.
The Emergency Department has four major resuscitation rooms including two pediatric trauma rooms, 46 examination rooms including specific areas for pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, minor surgery and a fully equipped dental suite. The communities served by LIJ are primarily Nassau and Queens counties, with a total population of 3.3 million.
Fifty four percent of the patients come from Queens County, thirty five percent from Nassau County, four percent from Brooklyn, and the remainder from other New York City and New York State counties. The substantial population base provides the Emergency Medicine program with an unusually large and varied patient mix.
Nassau University Medical Center (East Meadow, NY)
The emergency department has a yearly census of 75,000 patients with a 22% admission rate. NUMC is a level 1 Trauma Center for adult and pediatrics and is the regional Burn Center. There is an extremely high acuity of penetrating and blunt trauma and patients are often transferred in by helicopter for advanced trauma care.
The Nassau Health Care Corporation is a 1,200-bed health care system, which includes a 530 bed tertiary care teaching hospital, an 589-bed skilled nursing facility and 7 community health centers. For more than 65 years, the Medical Center, which is affiliated with the North Shore-LIJ Health System and the Health Sciences Center of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has maintained a strong commitment to medical education and has offered a proud tradition of service and caring to the people of Long Island.
Jacobi Medical Center (Bronx, NY)
Jacobi Hospital, the cornerstone of the Jacobi Medical Center complex, is located in a middle class section of the Bronx.
A brand new 7 story state of the art Jacobi hospital facility opened in the summer of 2006. Jacobi is one of eleven acute care hospitals in New York City's unique public hospital system and is the largest public hospital facility in the Bronx. It serves as a major academic affiliate and teaching site of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
The hospital supports residency training programs in all specialties and subspecialties. It is a 911-receiving hospital, a level one trauma center for both adult and pediatrics, as well as the only Burn Unit in the Bronx, the second largest in New York City. It also serves as the Regional Hyperbaric Center and Regional Snakebite Center for the Tri-state area. The adult Emergency Department delivers care to approximately 75,000 patients each year. The Pediatric Emergency Department manages nearly 40,000 patients annually, is supervised by Pediatric and Emergency Medicine faculty, and supports a fellowship program in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. The Psychiatric ED treats another 7,000 patients, and is staffed by members of the Department of Psychiatry.