Long Island Jewish Medical Center

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| name = Long Island Jewish Medical Center

| org/group = Northwell Health

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| location = Glen Oaks

| region = New York City

| state = New York

| country = United States

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| type = Teaching

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| affiliation = Zucker School of Medicine

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| beds = 583 - LIJ Medical Center
1,004 - the entire medical campus

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| founded = 1954

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| website = {{URL|https://www.northwell.edu/}}

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File:Driveway entrance, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, August 25, 2022.jpg

Long Island Jewish Medical Center (also known as LIJ or LIJ Medical Center) is a clinical and academic hospital and medical campus within the Northwell Health system. It is a 1,004-bed,{{cite web |title=NYS Hospital Profile: Long Island Jewish Medical Center |url=https://profiles.health.ny.gov/hospital/printview/103008}} non-profit tertiary care teaching hospital and medical campus serving the greater New York metropolitan area. The {{convert|48|acre|adj=on}} campus is {{convert|15|mi}} east of Manhattan, on the border of Queens and Nassau Counties, in Glen Oaks, Queens and Lake Success, New York, respectively.

LIJMC has three hospitals that encompass the medical campus: Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Cohen Children’s Medical Center, and The Zucker Hillside Hospital.

Long Island Jewish Medical Center (often simply called LIJ) is a 583-bed{{cite web |title=About our hospital |url=https://lij.northwell.edu/about}} tertiary, adult acute-care hospital with advanced diagnostic and treatment technology, and modern facilities for medical, surgical, dental and obstetrical care. LIJ is a Regional Perinatal Center and its maternity program is the busiest in New York State with just over 7,700 deliveries a year.{{cite web |title=NYS Health Profile: Long Island Jewish Medical Center |url=https://profiles.health.ny.gov/hospital/view/103008#maternity}}

As a primary teaching hospital (along with North Shore University Hospital) for the Zucker School of Medicine, the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies, LIJMC's graduate medical education program is one of the largest in New York State, and whose programs are headed by full-time faculty.

File:Zucker Hillside Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Glen Oaks, New York, United States.jpg

LIJ's full-time staff includes more than 500 physicians, who supervise care in all major specialties and participate in the medical center's teaching and research programs.

The medical center is located on the southeast side of North Shore Towers.

The center was founded in 1954 by a group of nine philanthropists, including Jacob H. Horwitz.{{cite news|last1=Staff writer |title=Obituary: Jacob H. Horwitz, 100, Innovator in Fashion and Hospital Founder |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/14/nyregion/jacob-h-horwitz-100-innovator-in-fashion-and-hospital-founder.html |access-date=July 5, 2015 |work=The New York Times |date=October 14, 1992}}

In 2012 they opened Katz Women's Hospital a nine-story glass tower with private delivery rooms nursery and additional private rooms for cardiac patients.