Southampton (N.Y.) Hospital, hereafter called Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, finalized an agreement to join Stony Brook (N.Y.) Medicine.
By joining forces, the organizations aim to improve healthcare quality and access. The two provider organizations will bring new services to the community including a new cardiac catheterization laboratory, a robust vascular program, graduate medical education programs and a level three trauma center.
"Today we celebrate a unique opportunity in which academic medicine and community medicine can come together to benefit our entire region," said Samuel L. Stanley Jr., SBM's president. "As a result of the State's comprehensive review process, we can now move confidently forward, taking what started as an alliance between two successful institutions, to the next level, as we welcome Stony Brook Southampton Hospital officially into the Stony Brook University family."
With the addition of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, Stony Brook Medicine includes three hospitals, six health sciences schools and more than 90 community-based healthcare facilities.