Lenox Hill Hospital, a 652-bed, acute care hospital located on Manhattan's Upper East Side, has earned a national reputation for outstanding patient care and innovative medical and surgical treatments. The hospital is particularly well known for excellence in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, orthopedics, sports medicine, otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, and maternal/child health. The Hospital is also a recognized leader in public health education and community outreach.
- Approximately 45% of Lenox Hill Hospital's patients are from Manhattan. The remaining 55% come from Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Long Island, the Tri-State area and around the world.
- Lenox Hill Hospital is committed to providing a high standard of patient care to a socio-economically and ethnically diverse patient population, with multi-lingual translators available 24 hours a day.
Lenox Hill Hospital, established in 1857, has proven to be an innovative leader in many fields. The Hospital and its physicians:
- performed the first angiocardiogram in the U.S. in 1938
- performed the first coronary angioplasty in the U.S. in 1978
- established the first Lyme Disease Center in the City in 1989
- inserted one of first coronary stents in the region in 1991
