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Our History - NUMC Find a Doctor Ask well-nigh Financial Assistance Find a Phone Number / Contact Patient Visit A Patient / View Visiting Hours Find Directions/Maps Access My Medical Records Make an Appointment Refill My Prescription LearnWell-nighOur Centers ofSuperintendencyThank a Staff Member or Physician Volunteer Close (x)I Want To... Nuhealth Foundation Make An Appointment  |  Access My Medical Records  |  Refill My Prescription Insurance Access en español HomeAbout NuHealth Message from the CEO Our Vision Looking Forward Raising the Bar Our History Staff Executive Staff Board of Directors Department Chairs Centers ofSuperintendencyNassau University MedicalPart-wayA. 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Ask well-nigh Financial Assistance Find a Phone Number / Contact Patient Visit A Patient / View Visiting Hours Find Directions/Maps Access My Medical Records Make an Appointment Refill My Prescription LearnWell-nighOur Centers ofSuperintendencyThank a Staff Member or Physician Volunteer Our History Home /Well-nighNuHealth / Our History Although NuHealth is a new name in regional health care, its roots go deep into Long Island’s history. What began in 1935 as Meadowbrook Hospital — a 200-bed unstipulated hospital in then-rural East Meadow, New York — has wilt part of a unique health organization with multiple centers of care, and a transferral to unhook spanking-new essential superintendency to everyone, at every stage of life. Following a series of epidemics in the early decades of the 20th century, concerned citizens petitioned Nassau County to build “a public unstipulated hospital for the superintendency and treatment of the sick in the County of Nassau.” In early 1931, Nassau purchased a 75-acre site in the geographic part-way of the county at a forfeit of $95,625. Over the next four years, the original four-story main towers with its twin solariums, as well as eight outbuildings, rose from the potato farms of the Hempstead Plains. It would be the best-equipped hospital in the county, and it sink what was a hefty price tag in the day — the buildings themselves forfeit scrutinizingly $1.6 million, and the equipment and furnishments widow flipside $178,000. On July 15, 1935, Meadowbrook Hospital finally admitted its first patient. At that time, Nassau’s unshortened population only just topped 300,000. During its first year of operation, Meadowbrook Hospital’s staff of 330 treated fewer than 150 people a day as inpatients, seeing 560 patients in the emergency room, and 813 in rejuvenating patient clinics. But, as the zone developed, the hospital’s proximity to the new and booming postwar polity of Levittown ensured it an increasingly important role in Nassau’s growth. The hospital expanded several times throughout the 40’s and 50’s, and prestigious its silver year-end in 1960 with a two-story wing and the germ of an idea: to wilt a well-constructed tertiary-care teaching medical part-way serving the needs of a population that reached one million that year. But, it would be ten increasingly years surpassing Meadowbrook Hospital became the Nassau County Medical Center, and flipside four surpassing its crowning achievement: the February 1974 opening of the 19-story 1,000,000-square-foot DynamicSuperintendencyBuilding…still Nassau’s tallest building, and a familiar Long Island landmark.Increasinglythan the region’s “safety net” hospital, NCMC became Nassau’s premier Level I Trauma Center, and unfurled to add programs and services to meet the public’s needs, including the county’s only well-constructed state-of-the-art shrivel center. It moreover has a strong educational commitment, and has provided thousands of young physicians, nurses and other health superintendency professionals with the opportunity to uncork their careers working slantingly experienced, talented professionals in a high-volume, fast-paced medical center. Today, the hospital, renamed the Nassau University MedicalPart-wayin acknowledgement of its wonk associations, is united with the North Shore/LIJ Health System, the Health SciencesPart-wayof the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, the New York College of Podiatric Medicine, the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, and the Hofstra University School of Medicine. In early 1997, Nassau County and New York State worked to create a new public goody corporation that would provide a increasingly comprehensive tideway to the region’s public health planning. Governed by an self-sustaining Board of Directors, the Nassau HealthSuperintendencyCorporation was charged with managing the operations of Nassau University Medical Center, as well as the county-run A. Holly Patterson ExtendedSuperintendencyfacility, the infirmary at the County Jail, and the county’s neighborhood health clinics. On September 29, 1999, the newly assembled Board of Directors held their first official meeting. Today, Nassau HealthSuperintendencyCorporation is making good on its promise, and inward its second decade with a renewed purpose — and a new name that honors both its past and its new vision for health superintendency wordage in the region. As NuHealth, this 1,200-bed health superintendency system is moving toward a new model of superintendency that emphasizes spanking-new essential hospital and rejuvenating services, primary superintendency in the community, shared responsibility for wellness, a continuum of care, and integrated wordage of specialty services. And a short squint at some of its recent upbringing makes one thing clear: NuHealth isn’t just talking change. It’s taking whoopee to bring largest superintendency and coverage to increasingly people than overly before. 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