Staten Island offers its residents a choice of excellent hospitals. Below, we explore Staten Island University Hospital and Richmond University Medical Center. These award-winning hospitals, through their multiple campuses and affiliations, ensure that Staten Island’s public health is well looked after.
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Staten Island University Hospital
SI University Hospital is composed of two campuses. Its north campus is located in the Ocean Breeze, or South Beach, section of Staten Island. It was constructed in the 1970s, when the hospital outgrew its original location.
The hospital’s second location is its Prince’s Bay South Campus, originally the Richmond Memorial Hospital. Staten Island University Hospital maintains 714 beds and is a teaching hospital. It is affiliated with the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine and Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and is currently park of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital Health System.
Staten Island University Hospital was recently ranked 27th in New York and 32nd in the New York metropolitan area by US News and World Report. The hospital, which has been serving Staten Island since the nineteenth century, ranked high in patient safety.
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Richmond University Medical Center
Richmond University serves the West New Brighton section of Staten Island. It was established in 2007 to take over the recently shuttered St. Vincent’s Medical Center. The medical center is an affiliate of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. It maintains around 470 beds and has an outstanding neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) which, in 2011, had the lowest mortality rate in the metropolitan area and a survival rate of 99.4%.
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