Hospital to take on a new name as NYU Langone-Suffolk

On Monday, March 3, NYU Langone Health celebrated a new chapter in its service to Suffolk County with a ribbon-cutting ceremony starting at the Knapp Cardiac Care Center at LI Community Hospital in East Patchogue. 

According to Senior VP & Chief of Hospital Operations Marc S. Adler, MD, the merger was three years in the making and has officially been “fully executed.”

“Rather than just flipping a switch and saying ‘we’re NYU now’ we really worked on building the hospital and working on quality by adopting a lot of processes and procedures with the development of staff that NYU is known for,” he said. “We [worked] on anything that touches quality, which is everything in a hospital.”

Since its affiliation with NYU Langone Health began in March 2022, the hospital has undergone a transformation and is now making the merger official. The hospital has added robotic surgery and gynecologic oncology, enhanced vascular, surgical, gastroenterology, and orthopedic services, and improved key outcomes such as length of stay and infection rates. 

The merger, Adler said is “really terrific” and benefits everyone, especially the community.

Back in 2018, the hospital formerly known as Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center with a brief trial period as Long Island Medical Center, was re-named Long Island Community Hospital. The hospital will now be re-named as NYU Langone-Suffolk, in line with NYU’s other locations: NYU Langone-Brooklyn and NYU Langone-Long Island, located in Mineola.

“Kudos to the leadership of the hospital,” Adler said of being able to keep LICH as the only remaining independent hospital left on Long Island. However, he said, the merger was time. “It was time to bring it to the next level and make care and access to care and the standard of care in Suffolk to the benefit of all the patients.”

During the ribbon cutting ceremony, Adler, Robert I. Grossman, MD, CEO of NYU Langone Health and dean of NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and elected officials including Suffolk County Executive   Ed Romaine were in attendance.