BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$300.0M
- Private
- US
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In 1913, Southside Hospital began as a 21-bed hospital in Babylon, N.Y., on the land where the town's post office now stands. Today, Southside is a complex of several buildings with growing programs in most areas of health care, and a member of the Long Island's largest and most advanced health network, the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. By 1919, the tiny, not-for-profit hospital had outgrown its original quarters. With contributions from local communities and famous summer residents such as Rudolph Valentino, Florenz Ziegfield and Jack Dempsey, a 50-bed hospital was built on Main Street in Bay Shore where today's medical complex still stands. The "new" hospital opened in 1923. Soon after, Southside acquired the first X-ray machine on the South Shore. By 1929, Southside had admitted 8,000 patients, and had been the birthplace of 1,300 babies. Southside grew and thrived during Long Island's post-World War II boom, adding the East Wing in the '40s, the Gulden wing in...
Number of Employees 2,999
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NAICS Code General Medical and Surgical Hospitals: 622110
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Long Island ERs grapple with shrinking on-call staff
- 2008-01-11
Community hospitals on Long Island are struggling to find specialists to offer on-call coverage for emergency departments. Failure to access the right physician, such as a cardiologist, trauma surgeon or obstetrician, quickly in an emergency could worsen a patient's condition and in turn, may also raise health-care...
LI's Southside Hospital debuts stroke unit
- 2005-05-06
Southside Hospital has opened a stroke center designed to provide swift treatment for stroke victims. The four-bed unit, which opened March 31 at the Bay Shore hospital, is staffed with nurses and physicians with special training in neurology and stroke management. The unit is expected...
Nurses awarded post-retirement health benefits
- 2003-08-29
Amid an acute nursing shortage, Southside Hospital has become the latest institution to approve a contract that gives nurses health care benefits after they retire. The union said the new provision would pay nurses from age 60 to 65 a $2,500 stipend toward health insurance upon retirement. ...
WirelessMD To Provide Wireless Clinical Connectivity To Long Island's Oldest Community Hospital
- 2000-10-06
Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 6, 2000 First New York Hospital To Adopt Wireless Connectivity Solution WirelessMDTM, Inc., the premiere wireless connectivity solution provider for the medical community, today announced an agreement with Southside Hospital. Under the terms of the agreement, WirelessMD will integrate...
New York hospital discovers joy of optical imaging - Southside Hospital
- 1993-01-01
Paper--a word that can strike terror into the hearts of healthcare financial managers everywhere.At Southside Hospital in Hollis Hills, New York, Director of Patient Financial Services Paul Cheng, Jr., CMPA, president-elect of HFMA's Metropolitan New York Chapter, discovered a method for taming the paper beast: optical imaging.State-of-the-art optical imaging technology...
Cable weary
- 1990-01-01
CABLE WEARY Like many hospitals today, we've been searching for a cure for a debilitating disease spreading faster than a new virus. We've been suffering from a bad case of cable-itis. Of course, we agree that computers are the best thing to happen to medicine since penicillin....
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