Clinical Facilities and Affiliates
Facilities utilized in patient care, teaching, and research programs affiliated with the School are wide-ranging, placing the School’s faculty in charge of one of the most extensive patient care operations in the nation. Four major hospitals—Bellevue, Tisch, Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopedics Institute, and the Department of Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Health Care System—form a unique biomedical corridor along First Avenue in Manhattan. These are joined on campus by two other important healthcare facilities, the Rusk Institute and the Schwartz Health Care Center. Affiliated hospitals in the greater metropolitan area include: North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System; Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Gouverneur Diagnostic and Treatment Center; Jamaica Hospital; and Chinatown Health Clinic. This vast array of clinical facilities offers an extraordinary breadth of experiences for our students.

Bellevue Hospital
A 900-bed facility, Bellevue is a 25-story building that contains 16 operating rooms and seven intensive care units: a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, a Medical Intensive Care Unit, a Surgical Intensive Care Unit, a Neuro-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, andthe Emergency Ward. To provide immediate consultations with experts worldwide as needed, television monitoring links satellite radiology stations in specialty areas to central radiology headquarters.

Tisch Hospital
Tisch Hospital offers a wide spectrum of patient care programs, including: the melanoma center; open heart surgery center; chemosurgery; cleft lip and palate center; referral center for all Health Insurance Plan neurosurgical procedures; amniocentesis and genetic counseling center; ultrasound diagnostic scanning in pregnancy program; hand surgery; metabolic laboratory for mental retardation; brain tumor chemotherapy; treatment center for intracranial ruptured aneurysms; treatment center for hydrocephalus and meningomyelocele; radiation therapy; dysautonomia treatment center; hearing and speech center; tissue and typing center; dialysis center; and a center for hearing defect caused by maternal rubella.

The hospital houses 705 beds, admits approximately 32,560 patients each year, and provides 189,000 patient days of care annually. The attending physician staff numbers 1,492, and there are some 400 house officers.

The Department of Veterans Affairs New York
Harbor Health Care System
The Department of Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Health Care System, known informally as “the VA,” is a 350-bed, acute-care facility which has been integrated into the School of Medicine’s teaching program. Here, students learn to treat those whose conditions may have originated during their service to our country in the armed forces. Patients may have multiple amputations, combat-related mental illness, or suffer from the effects of chemicals employed in combat situations.

The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Health Care Center
The 15-story Arnold and Marie Schwartz Health Care Center, which opened in 1979, is a multipurpose building that houses faculty practice offices, outpatient Radiology facilities, inpatient Psychiatry services, a cardiac rehabilitation center, the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Study Center, and the Cooperative Care unit.

The Cooperative Care unit, the first of its kind in the world, incorporates a family member as an integral part of each patient’s healthcare team. It utilizes health education strategies to have family members develop the knowledge and skills needed to make meaningful observations, reliably administer prescribed medications, provide physical assistance and emotional support, and assist the professional staff in their therapeutic measures. Because of this groundbreaking program the Cooperative Care unit has been able to provide high quality, lower cost care for a wide spectrum of diseases, in both its inpatient and its outpatient components.

The Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine
The Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, an integral component of the Medical Center, is the world’s first facility devoted entirely to rehabilitation medicine. Founded in 1948, the Rusk Institute is the largest university-affiliated center for the treatment of adults and children with disabilities, as well as for research and training in rehabilitation medicine.

The Rusk Institute operates under the auspices of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of NYU School of Medicine. Should the need arise, patients at Rusk have immediate access to Tisch Hospital’s superb tertiary-care facilities.

Treatment is organized around the rehabilitation team, a concept originally developed at Rusk. The physiatrist (a physician specializing in rehabilitation medicine) functions as the team leader, designing the care plan and coordinating the other team members in its implementation. Depending on the needs of the individual patient, the team may include clinical specialists from other departments of the Medical Center.