This is a list of hospitals in the U.S. state of New York. The hospitals are listed by the most recent hospital name with the name of the health system, county, city, date the hospital first opened, and most recent number of beds, when known. For defunct hospitals, the closing date is included, when known. Military hospitals and psychiatric hospitals are listed separately. More detailed descriptions are in the lists of hospitals in New York City's five boroughs and separate articles for many notable hospitals.
The American Hospital Directory lists 261 active hospitals in New York State in 2022. 210 of these hospitals have staffed beds, with a total of 64,515 beds. The largest number of hospitals are in New York City.[1] The January 1, 2022 listing by the New York Health Department of general hospitals covered by the New York Healthcare Reform Act show 165 hospitals 63 closed hospitals, and 51 hospitals that had been merged with other hospitals.[2]
The oldest hospital in New York State and also oldest hospital in the United States is the Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, established in 1736. The hospital with the largest number of staffed beds is the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, with 2,678 beds in its hospital complex.
Hospitals
The notable hospitals in New York are listed below using the current name of the hospital and previous names described in footnotes. This list is sortable by name, county, city, date opened and number of beds. The range of number of beds in hospitals goes from the multi-campus NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan with 2,678 beds to Mercy Hospital in Orchard Park with only two beds. The number of beds for each hospital since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic has fluctuated, so references are included.[1][3]
As of 2022, there were 97 operating hospitals in New York that have psychiatric beds.[162] The New York hospitals listed in the table below are or were used solely for psychiatric patients. Defunct hospitals' names are in italics. County, city, coordinates, date the hospital opened, number of beds in most recent data, and references are given for each hospital.
When Pilgrim State Hospital (Pilgrim Psychiatric Center) opened in 1931, it was the largest psychiatric hospital in the United States. At its peak, it had 14,000 patients.
In 2018, there were a total of 11,109 adult in-patient psychiatric beds in New York state and New York City hospitals, including 7,228 beds in general hospitals.[163]
^Mather Hospital is also known as the John T. Mather Memorial Hospital.
^MidHudson Regional Hospital was until 2014 the St. Francis Hospital
^The Misericordia Hospital, previously Monetefiore Medical Center North Division, was formerly the Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, until 2008.
^Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital was formerly Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester.
^Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital was formerly Babies' Hospital in the City of New York until 2003.
^Mount Sinai Beth Israel is also referred to as Beth Israel Medical Center.
^Mount Sinai South Nassau was formerly called South Nassau Communities Hospital.
^The NYU School of Medicine, which is part of NYU Langone Health, was founded in 1841. It was renamed the Grossman School of Medicine in 2019.
^The total number of beds in NY Langone Health hospitals is 1,350.
^NY Langone Orthopedic Hospital was formerly the Hospital for Joint Diseases.[81]
^Peconic Bay Medical Center was formerly Central Suffolk Hospital.
^Plainview Hospital is also known as Northwell University Hospital, Plainview.
^St. Mary's Hospital in Troy is also known as Seton Health.
^In 1994, St. John's Riverside Hospital, affiliated with Yonkers General Hospital, officially merged in 2001 and is now known as the ParkCare Pavilion of St. John's Riverside Hospital.[36]
^Leonard, I.R. Historical sketch of the Village of Gowanda, N.Y. in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of its incorporation. August 8, 1898, Buffalo, NY. Salem, MA: Higginson Book Company.