Unique National
Collaboration Enhances Patient Care, Research & Medical
Ed.
Weill Cornell Medical
College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City
and The Methodist Hospital in Houston jointly announced that
they have entered into an historic medical affiliation that
will benefit residents of New York and Texas. Under the terms
of the 30-year agreement, The Methodist Hospital’s
primary affiliation will be with Weill Cornell Medical College
and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Physicians at The Methodist
Hospital can choose to have faculty appointments at Weill Cornell
Medical College.
The affiliation will enable the three internationally
renowned institutions to collaborate in providing high-quality
patient care, cutting-edge clinical and biomedical research,
and the most innovative medical education and training of future
physicians and biomedical scientists.
“This marks an important, historic milestone
for The Methodist Hospital, with the announcement of this new
primary affiliation,” said John Bookout, chairman of
the Methodist Board of Directors. “This new affiliation
establishes new heights of collaboration and recognizes the
strengths of all three partners.”
With 1,269 beds, The
Methodist Hospital is one of the largest general hospitals
in the southwest, and one of the country’s largest
private not-for-profit hospitals. The NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital, with 2,397 beds, is the largest hospital in the
northeast and is also the anchor of the NewYork-Presbyterian
Healthcare System, the largest, not-for-profit, non-sectarian
health-care system in the country. Weill Cornell Medical
College is among the top-ranked medical education, clinical,
and research centers in the country with over $245 million
in NIH-funded research grants, and has long been committed
to promoting scientific collaboration across geographic lines.
“In undertaking this unprecedented collaboration,
Weill Cornell Medical College, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital,
and The Methodist Hospital in Houston become a truly transnational
academic medical center,” said Jeffrey S. Lehman, president
of Cornell University. “We look forward to the opportunity
to begin new collaborations with our new Weill Cornell faculty
in Houston to the benefit not only of patients in our local
communities but ultimately throughout the world.”
“Weill Cornell Medical College is forging
a leadership role in the future of medicine for the 21st century
not only in the globalization of medical excellence through
the new Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, but now through
this historic partnership with the preeminent Methodist Hospital
in Houston,” said Sanford I. Weill, chairman of the Board
of Overseers of Weill Cornell.#
