NYU Langone merges with Long Island hospital as new high-tech facility offering robotic procedures

It was a three-year operation.NYU Langone Health has completed a meticulous merge with a Long Island hospital to become a high-tech care facility with expanded services — including robotic procedures.Patchogue’s Long Island Community Hospital — which has been affiliated with the New York City-based healthcare system since 2022 — has been officially rebranded as NYU Langone Hospital — Suffolk.“We were able to really bring the recipe for success that we’ve seen on the other campuses within NYU, out to Suffolk County,” Dr.Marc Adler, senior vice president and chief of hospital operations, told The Post ahead of the announcement.But the real change, beyond the new name, comes through enhanced efficiency and a wider range of services and procedures offered to patients, the doctor said.“When you come into the emergency room, the wait time has significantly dropped” since NYU became affiliated with the South Shore institution three years ago, Adler said.

“We’re now, on average, about eight minutes from the time you come until you see your provider.That’s a substantial improvement.”Adler also noted a 25% drop in infection rates since NYU’s involvement and boasted an expanded “continuity of care” for those being treated, as well as a expansion of providers in services that were previously outsourced.“We’ve been able to expand the reach for our outpatient services to patients that are also connected to the hospital,” Adler noted.The newly named facility, which has 11 operating rooms, has also broadened its cancer services — with some help from new aged technology.“We have passed over 1,500 new robotic procedures,” Adler said.

“Three years ago, we didn’t have any robots in the hospital.”In terms of doctor-guided cancer operations, he explained that “the robot helps get the instrument into a much smaller space with a smaller incision.”For patients, it means “less bleeding, less risk of infection, a much shorter healing...