The Rockaway Park-based Peninsula Hospital Center is now a sponsored facility of the not-for-profit organization MediSys Health Network.
Peninsula Hospital Center, which has been providing health care services for more than 100 years, is joining a network that already includes the hospitals Brookdale, Flushing, and Jamaica Hospital Center.
Along with becoming the fourth hospital to be a part of the network, its Peninsula Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation will also become the third nursing home in the network.
“We’ve had an ongoing collaboration with our neighbors at MediSys and it has now become time to formalize that relationship,” said Robert V. Levine, the President and CEO of Peninsula Hospital Center. “We look forward to the bright future that this partnership brings to our institutions and the patients we serve.”
The partnership between the hospital center and the network “will allow for more efficiency through economies of sale, sharing of clinical expertise, and greater bargaining power in the marketplace,” said a hospital spokesperson.
“The healthcare industry has been greatly impacted by a weak economy, managed care manipulation of payments to hospitals, and the issues of the uninsured, and now more than ever it is imperative that hospitals have support and are not left standing alone,” said MediSys Health Network President and CEO David R. Rosen.
“Peninsula Hospital Center is an ideal fit, as it enables us to continue to build on what we have been doing over the years to improve health care service and access for Queens residents,” he said.
Peninsula Hospital Center, which is a teaching hospital, has 173 acute care beds in addition to 200 beds in its long-term care and rehabilitation center.
In total, the health care network has 1,200 acute care beds. The network also has 129 psychiatric beds and 652 long-term care beds.
