Northwell Health (commonly shortened to simply "Northwell") is a nonprofit integrated healthcare network that is New York state's largest healthcare provider and private employer, with more than 105,000 employees.
The health system spans two states, New York and Connecticut. It comprises 28 hospitals and over 1,000 ambulatory care facilities across Long Island, the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, the Hudson Valley, and Western Connecticut. The flagship hospitals of Northwell are North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center. The healthcare network is also headquartered on Long Island, in New Hyde Park, Nassau County.
History
Formation and early expansion In 1990, North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset purchased Glen Cove Hospital and became North Shore Health Systems Inc. Throughout the decade the health network continued to expand, purchasing other surrounding hospitals, and by 1997 had a total of 10 hospitals spanning from Staten Island to Suffolk County, New York.
In 1997, North Shore Health Systems merged with Long Island Jewish Medical Center, forming the "North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System," after an unsuccessful legal challenge by the United States Department of Justice to block the merger. In September of 2015, the health system changed its name to Northwell Health.
More recently, the company signed a deal with software technology company Playback Health, to launch platforms for patient medical information to retain their healthcare data.
In April 2022, Northwell Health announced it will be providing telemedicine support of around of medical supplies to the front-line regions of Ukraine to aid in the humanitarian crisis.
In May 2025, it was announced that Northwell's planned merger with Nuvance Health was completed. The health system would continue operating under the Northwell name and it marks the first time the health system would operate beyond New York.
Billing controversy On 12 April 2024, New York attorney general Letitia James announced that her office secured more than 1 million dollars from Northwell after they deceptively advertised that three of their emergency departments were COVID-19 testing sites. The health system would bill the claim as an ER visit even though the only care that some received was having been administered a COVID test. Others who sought care at their ERs for other issues were charged for the COVID test as well as the ER visit, despite federal and state laws prohibiting the billing of COVID-19 tests and related services. Northwell paid about $650,000 in penalties to the state and refunded about $400,000 to around 2,000 patients.
Hospitals The following hospitals and medical facilities are part of Northwell Health. + Name Location County or Borough Opened Cohen Children's Medical Center New Hyde Park Queens1983 Danbury HospitalDanburyFairfield 1885Glen Cove Hospital Glen CoveNassau 1921 Huntington HospitalHuntingtonSuffolk1916 Greenwich Village Hospital (formerly Lenox Health Greenwich Village)Greenwich Village Manhattan 2014 Lenox Hill Hospital Upper East Side Manhattan 1857 Long Island Jewish Medical Center Lake SuccessNassau1954 Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Forest HillsQueens 1953 Long Island Jewish Valley StreamValley StreamNassau 1963 Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat HospitalUpper East Side Manhattan 1869 Mather Hospital Port Jefferson Suffolk 1929 New Milford HospitalNew MilfordLitchfield1921 North Shore University Hospital Manhasset Nassau 1953 Northern Duchess HospitalRhinebeckDutchess Northern Westchester Hospital Mount Kisco Westchester 1916 Norwalk HospitalNorwalkFairfield1893 Peconic Bay Medical CenterRiverhead Suffolk 1951 Phelps Hospital Sleepy Hollow Westchester 1955 Putnam HospitalCarmelPutnam1964 Plainview Hospital Plainview Nassau 1961 South Oaks HospitalAmityville Suffolk South Shore University Hospital Bay Shore Suffolk 1911 Sharon HospitalSharon Litchfield1909 Staten Island University Hospital North & South South Beach and Prince's Bay Staten Island 1861 Syosset HospitalSyosset Nassau1962 Vassar Brothers Medical CenterPoughkeepsieDutchess1882 Zucker Hillside Hospital Glen Oaks Queens 1926
SkyHealth SkyHealth is an medevac helicopter service which is jointly owned by Northwell and the Yale New Haven Health System. It currently operates two Eurocopter EC135 helicopters each staffed with a pilot, critical-care nurse and paramedic which have full ICU capabilities. The service launched with one helicopter on November 14th, 2014 which is operated by Med-Trans and is based out of Farmingdale Republic Airport. In February of 2023, a second helicopter was launched which is based out of Sikorsky Memorial Airport. SkyHealth were featured in the Netflix docu-series Emergency NYC.
Northwell Nurse Choir In 2020, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a choir was formed consisting of eighteen nurses who had worked on the frontline to aid those affected by the virus. Created to support the nonprofit Nurse Heroes group, the members performed virtually in order to ensure safety . The group came to prominence in 2021 when they auditioned on the 16th season of America's Got Talent.
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