Hospitals in New York

Hospital Infrastructure in New York

New York operates 214 hospitals with over 58,000 beds, making it one of the largest hospital systems in the nation. New York City alone contains one of the greatest concentrations of world-class medical institutions anywhere on earth, led by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the largest hospital in the country with 2,600 beds and affiliations with both Columbia and Cornell medical schools. NYU Langone Health, Mount Sinai, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center are globally recognized names in medicine and research. Northwell Health is the state's largest health system, operating 21 hospitals primarily on Long Island and in the greater metropolitan area. Upstate New York is served by major academic centers including Strong Memorial in Rochester, Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, and Albany Medical Center. New York's public hospital system, NYC Health + Hospitals, operates 11 acute care hospitals serving as the safety net for the city's uninsured and underinsured. The state was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. in early 2020, a crisis that profoundly reshaped hospital preparedness and capacity planning across the state.