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Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center is a 537 bed non-profit teaching hospital located in West Islip, New York. The hospital contains one-hundred nursing home beds,〔 and operates a Level II trauma center. Good Samaritan Hospital opened in May 1959, and it has expanded several times since opening.〔〔 It has been Magnet-designed for its quality nursing since 2006, and is a member of Catholic Health Services of Long Island. ==History== Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center was established by the Daughters of Wisdom. It opened on May 18, 1959 on a 60-acre parcel adjacent to the Great South Bay.〔 From 1963 to 1967, Robert Moses was the chairperson for the hospital's annual ball. On July 29, 1981, Robert Moses died at Good Samaritan Hospital at age 92. It has undergone major expansions six times: to the east in 1966; to the south with the 120-bed Baxter Pavilion in 1970; to the west with two additional patient floors in 1973; to the north in 1983 with a five-story addition which included eight new operating rooms and new radiology and pediatric departments; and in 1996 with a four-story addition for the teaching, mammography, pathology and surgical programs. The sixth expansion, begun in 1998, was a new two-story structure connected to the main building by a corridor. The Center for Emergency Medicine and Trauma, which was dedicated on April 22, 2001, encompasses the first floor. In February 1980, Good Samaritan acquired the former Sayville Nursing Home for elderly patients who could no longer live home alone. The structure at the corner of Elm and Candee Avenues was totally refurbished as the Good Samaritan Nursing Home with skilled nursing facilities for 100 patient-residents.〔 In 1992, the West Islip Breast Cancer Coalition asked Good Samaritan to open a breast cancer center, and in February 1994, Good Samaritan opened its Breast Health Center. It became Long Island's the first comprehensive breast health center. According to ''The New York Times'', the center offers mammography examinations, biopsies, surgeries, after care, counseling, a boutique, and support groups. In 1997, the Breast Health Center was one of four places in the United States that was conducting clinical trials for new filmless digital mammography technology.〔 In 1997, the Bishop John R. McGann of the Rockville Centre diocese dismissed the separate boards operating Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Francis Hospital, Mercy Medical Center, and St. Charles Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, and placed the four hospitals under the management of the newly created Catholic Health Services of Long Island in response in changes in the health care industry and in order to aid the poor and needy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center (West Islip, New York)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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