Daily business news in New York
NEW YORK — NYU Langone Health’s Transplant Institute teams performed 600 organ transplants last year, exceeding any single transplant center in the Northeast. Additionally, data released by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients in January 2023 showed that survival exceeded national benchmarks. Transplant patients on the waiting list received hearts and lungs at a faster rate than […]
Layoffs aren’t just hitting tech companies, even hospitals in NY are cutting back. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), one of the nation’s top cancer hospitals, has laid off 337 workers according to a WARN notice filed with the NY State Department of Labor. According to WPIX, MSKCC cited financial problems for the cutbacks and […]
BRONX – Albert Einstein College of Medicine researchers have been awarded a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the effects of COVID-19 on the brains of adults who had mild or asymptomatic infection. Using neuroimaging, cognitive, and immunological tests, the investigators will examine if SARS-CoV-2 infection induces lasting […]
NYU Langone Health has begun the phased opening of NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center East 53rd Street, at 159 East 53rd Street in midtown Manhattan, offering comprehensive gynecologic, obstetric, and wellness care. “This new, state-of-the-art facility gives us opportunity to dramatically expand our scope of services within gynecology and obstetrics and enhance care for patients […]
NYYU Langone Health has received a $166 million gift from the Bezos family to improve the health and wellness of diverse populations across the NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn community. This gift follows a $25 million philanthropic pledge made in 2017 by the Bezos Family Foundation to support major initiatives to help mothers, children, and families in Brooklyn. […]
BROOKLYN — NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital is celebrating the opening of the Center for Community Health in Park Slope. The Center for Community Health is a world-class ambulatory care center where leading specialists, working collaboratively under one roof, combine innovative clinical approaches and cutting-edge technology to provide exceptional, comprehensive care to the Brooklyn community. The six-story, […]
MANHASSET, NY — The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of Northwell Health, has been awarded more than $4 million in multi-year grants to study perinatal depression in women – before and after childbirth – and possible new treatments. The research will be led by Kristina Deligiannidis, MD, associate professor at the Feinstein Institutes’ […]
NEW YORK — Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, a surgeon and director of the Transplant Institute at NYU Langone Health, has been appointed chair of the Department of Surgery at the hospital. He will assume his new post on September 1st. H. Leon Pachter, MD, the George Stewart Professor, who has had a distinguished tenure as chair of the Department since […]
BROOKLYN — New York Cancer & Blood Specialists (NYCBS) is partnering with The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC), an independent community hospital, to build a new comprehensive cancer care facility, The Brooklyn Cancer Center. The newly created center will be located at 523 Fulton Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn and is expected to be complete during the 4th quarter of […]
A new analysis of over 2 million patient visits and encounters from 228 hospitals in 40 states by research firm Strata Decision Technology is the first to provide a detailed view of the level of reduction in patients accessing healthcare and the associated impact on the health of patients and the nation’s hospitals. The study reveals […]