Summit Health opens 18th Long Island practice

Summit Health is continuing its Long Island expansion with a new multispecialty practice in Rockville Centre.

The office at 310 Merrick Rd. provides primary care as well as allergy/immunology, cardiology, dermatology, internal medicine, orthopedics and sports medicine. It includes 15 exam rooms in a 7,428-square-foot location.

This year, Summit Health has acquired eight health care practices on Long Island: Long Island Allergies; Hauppauge-based Medical Associates, with multiple locations on Long Island and in Queens;   Central Nassau Pediatrics; Suffolk Orthopaedic Associates, P.C. and  North Shore Cardiac Imaging Family Medical Health, as well as family practitioner Dr. Adrian Lombardi, cardiologist Dr. Salvatore Trazzera, and neurologist Dr. Ellen Braunstein.

Summit Health was formed by the 2019 merger of CityMD and Summit Medical Group. On Long Island, there are 18 Summit Health primary and specialty care locations and 36 CityMD urgent care clinics. In total, Summit Health and CityMD have about 2,800 providers in more than 370 locations in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Oregon.

Last month, Walgreens-backed primary care provider VillageMD announced plans to buy Summit Health for $8.9 billion. The acquisition, which also includes financing by Cigna's Evernorth health care unit, is expected to close next year. 

By Maura McDermott

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Maura McDermott is a reporter on the investigations desk. Since starting at Newsday in 2012, she has also covered real estate and the business of health care.