纽约长老会医院-哥伦比亚和康奈尔（New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell）

纽约长老会医院在2019年度全美最佳医院荣誉榜上名列第十。有14个成人专科和10个儿科专科中入选排名，其中有2个成人专科和7个标准治疗程序被评为优等。它是一综合性的教学医院。纽约长老会医院是由两家医院于1998年合并后成立的，其前身分别是建于1771年的纽约医院和建于于1868年的长老会医院。纽约医院的乔治·帕帕帕尼科劳博士与威尔·康奈尔医学院合作，发明了子宫颈抹片检测法，对妇女进行子宫颈癌筛查。长老会医院也有历史性的里程碑：它是第一个与哥伦比亚大学医学中心合作进行小儿心脏移植手术。

今天，纽约长老会医院与两所常春藤联盟医学院合作：康奈尔医学院和哥伦比亚大学内科医师和外科医生学院。作为两大常春藤名校的教学医院，这有助于医院网络了解最新的医学教育和研究，以及推进以患者为中心的临床护理。纽约长老会的四个主要部门是上述医院、纽约长老会地区医院网络、纽约长老会医师服务以及纽约长老会社区和人口健康。该学术医疗中心由7个校区和10个医院组成。

New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell in New York, N.Y. is ranked No. 10 on the Best Hospitals Honor Roll. It is nationally ranked in 14 adult and 10 pediatric specialties and rated high performing in 2 adult specialties and 7 procedures and conditions. It is a general medical and surgical facility. It is a teaching hospital. New York-Presbyterian Hospitals was founded in 1998 after a merger between The New York Hospital and The Presbyterian Hospital, which were founded in 1771 and 1868, respectively. In collaboration with the Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr. George Papanicolaou of The New York Hospital created the Pap smear test to screen women for cervical cancer. The Presbyterian Hospital also has historic milestones: It was the first to perform pediatric heart transplant surgery in collaboration with Columbia University Medical Center.

To this day, New York-Presbyterian Hospitals work in tandem with two Ivy League medical schools: Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. This helps the hospital network stay up on the latest medical education and research, as well as advance patient-centered clinical care. The four major divisions of New York-Presbyterian are the aforementioned hospital, New York-Presbyterian Regional Hospital Network, New York-Presbyterian Physician Services, and New York-Presbyterian Community and Population Health. This academic medical center is composed of seven campuses with 10 hospital locations.

Weight loss surgery, also known as bariatric surgery, is available at the GI Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery center at NYP/Weill Cornell Medicine, which specializes in laparoscopic bariatric surgery. This procedure results in less pain, a quicker recovery time and less of a risk of complications. The Bariatric Surgery Center also performs traditional “open” weight loss surgery, depending on the needs of the individual.

For those bringing life into the world, maternal-fetal medicine doctors are on hand to treat women with high-risk pregnancies and coexisting conditions. The hospital offers speciality services including but not limited to: first-trimester screening for Down syndrome, complications like placenta accreta, pregnant women with cancer, neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases, and women carrying infants diagnosed with fetal abnormalities.

NYP offers a smoking cessation program with classes, counseling and medication, including products like nicotine replacement patches. The program is designed to enable patients to quit smoking and add up to eight years to their lives, according to the NYP website. In collaboration with the two medical colleges, the hospital runs clinical trials to study new treatment options for patients. The medical research is run by the colleges but may use the equipment and facilities of New York-Presbyterian.