About Us

The Nassau Health Care Corporation plays a vital role in the delivery of health care in Nassau County. The Nassau University Medical Center, the A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility in Uniondale and our community health centers provide critical health services to all residents of Nassau County, but particularly to those among us who are most in need.

Designated as a Level I Trauma Center, one of only four on Long Island, Nassau University Medical Center, a 530 bed tertiary care teaching hospital is part of a 1,200-bed health care system, with an 589-bed A. Holly Patterson skilled nursing facility and six community health centers located throughout Nassau County. Annually, the safety net hospital treats over 75,000 people in its emergency rooms and another 270,000 people receive care in over 80 outpatient specialties. Some of its outstanding, highly specialized services include a self-contained Burn Center, the region's largest Hyperbaric Chamber, Breast Imaging; an Eye Center, a Dentistry and Oral Surgery Center, an AIDS Center, a Cardiac Catherization Lab; a new MRI Facility; a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and an Orthopaedics Department specializing in minimally invasive surgery.

Founded in 1935, NUMC serves as a major teaching campus of the Health Science Center of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is affiliated with the North Shore LIJ Health System. With a staff of over 3,400, NHCC serves as a center for teaching and learning and encourages research and innovation, continually striving to improve patient care with 95% of its physicians, board certified.

As Long Island's top Level 1 Trauma Center, NUMC treats over half of all serious trauma in Nassau County in five separate emergency rooms: medical emergencies; surgical emergencies; pediatric emergencies; a separate Gynecology suite; and an Emergency Ambulatory Unit, along with a locked psychiatric emergency section.

The Nassau Health Care Corporation consists of a medical school-affiliated Teaching Hospital (the Nassau University Medical Center), a geriatric center, and seven ambulatory care facilities that serve the people of Nassau County, a New York suburban community of more than 1 million people. The hospital is a large, modern tower with attractive, state-of-the-art inpatient services including advanced trauma and tertiary care. Outpatient services are designed to facilitate supervised post-graduate training in ambulatory specialty care. Seven free-standing health care offices scattered throughout the county serve a large uninsured and Medicaid population and provide excellent primary care experience supervised by faculty appointed to SUNY at Stony Brook and the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine Medical Schools.

Our full-time faculty provide clinical, basic science, and research instruction and supervision to residents and medical students. Extensive hands-on operative experience begins early in the residency with broad-based exposure to all subspecialties. The excellent basic science and clinical curriculum fully prepares graduates to obtain competitive fellowships and enter practice.