Catholic Health Services (CHS) is an integrated system encompassing some of the region's finest health and human services agencies. With six acute care hospitals, three nursing homes, a home health a...
Catholic Health Services (CHS) is an integrated system encompassing some of the region's finest health and human services agencies. With six acute care hospitals, three nursing homes, a home health agency, hospice, a community-based agency for persons with special needs and a regional lab, CHS's high standards have resulted in a nearly 24% market share. CHS is staffed by almost 17,000 employees, 4,600 medical staff and 3,000 volunteers, each of whom plays an invaluable role in delivering quality services and fulfilling CHS's mission. The system has a total of 1,928 hospital beds, 790 nursing home beds and 2 health clinics. Each year, CHS also reaches thousands of medically underserved residents of Nassau and Suffolk counties through its outreach network. In 2013 at CHS there were: 80,057 hospital admissions 5,549 newborn deliveries 27,851 inpatient surgeries 56,182 ambulatory surgeries 236,814 emergency department visits 302,823 home care visits 2,150 individuals with special needs served Physicians value CHS's many hospital-based programs, whether their patients require cardiac treatment, cancer care, neurosurgery, orthopedics, breast imaging, sleep medicine, laboratory services, bariatric surgery, hyperbaric wound care or virtually any specialized procedure. New, system-wide service lines are further expanding access to this wide array of expertise. To join us on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube, visit our website and click through.