NYU Medical School, Hospitals Center To Rejoin
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The New York University School of Medicine and the NYU Hospitals Center will rejoin to form an integrated academic medical center, the dean of NYU Medical Center announced yesterday.
In a letter to the NYU medical community yesterday, the new dean and CEO of NYU Medical Center, Robert Grossman, outlined a plan to recombine NYU’s School of Medicine with the hospitals, including Tisch Hospital on First Avenue, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine on East 34th Street, and NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases on East 17th Street. A new senior management team has been appointed to drive the integration forward.
“Bringing together the superb clinical expertise of the NYU hospitals and the world-class research and educational capabilities of the medical school will enhance our already cutting-edge, high-quality medical education, scientific research, and patient care,” he wrote. “This integration will also promote a more collaborative culture.”
The announcement closes a chapter in the medical center’s history that began with the failed merger between NYU Hospitals and Mount Sinai Hospital in 1998. When the two hospitals merged, the medical schools associated with them did not. After the hospitals went their separate ways several years later, NYU’s medical school and hospitals moved to realign with each other. In his letter yesterday, Dr. Grossman described the new integration as a vehicle for “recreating the many benefits” associated with becoming one entity again under the NYU Medical Center brand.
“NYU is an incredible medical center. It has enormous resources and what today’s announcement really underscores is the further integration of a superb medical center,” he said.
