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Departments or other top-level agencies, i.e., where the head of agency reports directly to the Governor (with the exception of the Education Department which is headed by the Regents of the University of the State of New York, and the Executive Department which is headed by the Governor.)
Pages in category "New York State Department of Health" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The 1881–1896 cholera pandemic further caused an expansion of its powers to compel reporting and to perform the duties of local boards of health. The State Department of Health and its commissioner were created by an act of 19 February 1901 of the 124th Legislature, superseding the board. [12] The state implemented Medicaid in 1966. [13]
Pages in category "Medical and health organizations based in New York (state)" The following 102 pages are in this category, out of 102 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The largest number of hospitals are in New York City. [2] The January 1, 2022 listing by the New York Health Department of general hospitals covered by the New York Healthcare Reform Act show 165 hospitals 63 closed hospitals, and 51 hospitals that had been merged with other hospitals. [3]
The oldest hospital in New York State and also oldest hospital in the United States is the Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, established in 1736. The hospital with the largest number of staffed beds is the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, with 2,678 beds in its hospital complex.
The Wadsworth Center has over 100 principal investigators and more than 1,000 staff in five locations, the Biggs Laboratory (at the Empire State Plaza), the David Axelrod Institute (on New Scotland Avenue), the Center for Medical Science, Western Avenue and, in nearby Guilderland, New York, the Griffin Laboratory.
After obtaining his medical degree from Harvard in 1960, he served a two-year residency in Rochester. He then worked for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland as a virus research scientist until joining the New York State Department of Health in 1968. [2] He was Health Commissioner for the State of New York in the 1980s and 1990s.