NYC’s NYU Langone tops major health care ranking for fourth year in a row

NYC’s NYU Langone tops major health care ranking for fourth year in a row

New York City hospitals have once again earned top spots in national health care rankings, with NYU Langone Health earning number one recognition as a “comprehensive academic medical center” for the fourth year in a row. Vizient, a health care improvement company, announced its rankings in several categories in Las Vegas this week. Langone’s Brooklyn … Read more

Exclusive | NYU Langone Health launching $60M women’s health collaborative — what patients can expect

Exclusive | NYU Langone Health launching M women’s health collaborative — what patients can expect

Philanthropist Allison Mignone has turned her triple-negative breast cancer diagnosis into a positive development for women’s health. Mignone and her husband, Roberto, donated $50 million to transform the NYU Langone East 53rd Street Ambulatory Care Center into the Mignone Women’s Health Collaborative. The Griffin Healthspan and Vitality Center will open on the second floor thanks … Read more

NYU Langone Health tops list of nation’s best academic medical centers

NYU Langone Health tops list of nation’s best academic medical centers

NYU Langone Health has once again been named the top comprehensive academic medical center in the country by the health care performance improvement company Vizient. The rankings, released Wednesday, measure annual performance across six key areas: safety, mortality, effectiveness, efficiency, patient centeredness and equity. “Recognitions like this further validate the quality that NYU Langone consistently … Read more

First face-and-eye combo transplant makes history at NYU Langone: ‘Grateful beyond words’

First face-and-eye combo transplant makes history at NYU Langone: ‘Grateful beyond words’

Earlier this year, inside an operating room in New York City, a man’s life was transformed. When a gruesome work accident occurred two years ago, electric lineman Aaron James received a deadly 7,200-volt shock as his face accidentally touched a live wire. James, 46, suffered massive injuries, including the loss of his left eye, his … Read more

Northwell Health fires back at NYU Langone in legal spat over which medical institution can use purple

Northwell Health fires back at NYU Langone in legal spat over which medical institution can use purple

Northwell Health fired back at rival NYU Langone Hospital on Tuesday in the medical behemoths’ legal battle — over the use of the color purple. Northwell urged a federal judge in Manhattan to dismiss New York University Langone’s trademark lawsuit against it that claims Northwell has been ripping off NYU’s color scheme, including its purple hue … Read more

Langone family’s $200M gift makes NYU med school tuition-free forever

Langone family’s 0M gift makes NYU med school tuition-free forever

Long Island natives Kenneth and Elaine Langone have made a $200 million donation to the now-renamed NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine. Their gift means medical students will receive a tuition-free education focused on primary care, including internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and general surgery. “It’s a huge benefit for the community around … Read more

Surgeons at NYU Langone transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead humans. Engadget

Surgeons at NYU Langone transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead humans.  Engadget

Earlier this summer, physicians at NYU Langone were able to successfully transplant pig hearts into two recently deceased humans. The medical team performed the procedures on June 16 and July 6 using special pig hearts that had been genetically modified to be more acceptable for transplantation into the human body. Both carcasses were donated by … Read more