About North Shore University Hospital

North Shore University Hospital is one of the cornerstones of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, providing the full spectrum of clinical health care services for patients of all ages. It offers a wide range of specialty and subspecialty residency programs, postgraduate training programs and clinical fellowships for research and education.

806-bed teaching hospital on the 58-acre Sandra Atlas Bass Campus

Academically affiliated with the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine

Employs more than 6,000 highly trained physicians, nurses and other medical staff

Medical specialties at North Shore University Hospital

North Shore University Hospital provides leading-edge care in all medical specialties, including open-heart surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, urology and maternal-fetal medicine. We continue to meet the needs of our community through exceptional primary health care while offering specialty programs such as the Katz Women’s Hospitals (one of two), for comprehensive, compassionate and superior care for women’s health issues.  North Shore University Hospital also includes the Comprehensive Wound Healing Center, focused on chronic wound care, the first and only kidney transplant center in Nassau and Queens Counties and the Center for Human Reproduction.

The Emergency Department at North Shore University Hospital is a New York State Designated Regional "Level One" Trauma Center. It offers the highest level of care to the most critically injured patients in the area. The physicians and nurses of the ED care for more than 90,000 patients per year and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.