NYU Langone advances merger with Long Island Community Hospital in Patchogue

Two years after affiliating with Long Island Community Hospital, NYU Langone filed an application to fully merge assets with the Patchogue institution.

The Manhattan-based health system received permission in February 2022 to become the “active parent” of Long Island Community Hospital and detailed longer-term plans for a full merger.

When the partnership was announced, NYU Langone said it would invest $100 million to improve the hospital, including its electronic records system, emergency rooms and operating rooms. Executives said more physicians and staff would be hired. 

NYU Langone didn't specify how much of the $100 million investment had been made and by how much it had increased various types of clinicians in its merger application, which is dated April 26. The document notes the health systems are ready to fully merge assets, with Long Island Community Hospital at NYU Langone becoming a division of the NYU Langone health system.

“LICH is still a separate corporation, but its affiliation with NYU Langone means it can draw on our system's resources,” NYU Langone spokesman Steven Ritea said in a statement Monday. “A full merger is expected in about a year.”

The 306-bed hospital includes the Knapp Cardiac Care Center for heart disease diagnosis and treatment and a sleep laboratory, and offers bariatric surgery, imaging services, renal dialysis and other primary and emergency care, according to its website and profile with state regulators. The facility has recently added inpatient infusion therapy for multiple sclerosis and robotic surgery. 

The hospital has 20 psychiatric beds and is certified as a primary stroke center, according to the state Department of Health. 

Long Island Community Hospital reported more than $253.96 million in revenue on its 2021 tax return, but had roughly $2.14 million more in expenses, according to the most recent filing available through the state attorney general's charities database.

The hospital had about 43,500 emergency room visits and performed more than 4,700 surgeries that year, the form noted. 

By Sarina Trangle

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