Over the past 18 years, New York City-based NYU Langone Health has raised more than $5.5 billion in donor support — a milestone it celebrated at its annual Violet Ball on June 3.
Four things to know:
1. Eight new gifts totaling nearly $160 million were announced at the event.
2. NYU Langone Health has grown from a safety-net system to one of the country’s leading academic health systems. The $14 billion organization now includes seven hospitals, more than 320 care facilities and 53,000 employees across New York City and Florida.
3. In March, the health system completed its acquisition of Patchogue, N.Y.-based Long Island Community Hospital, which is now known as NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk. The organizations had been affiliated since 2022.
4. NYU Langone Health has selected Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD, as the next CEO and dean of NYU Grossman School of Medicine, effective Sept. 1. Dr. Kimmelman, a researcher and radiation oncologist, joined the system in 2016 and most recently served as director of the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center. He will succeed Robert Grossman, MD, who is retiring.
“The evolution of NYU Langone from a struggling safety-net hospital to one of the world’s leading health systems is a phenomenal story,” Board of Trustees Chair Kenneth Langone said in a June 6 news release. “We have had the wonderful opportunity to change many lives for the better — for an ever-growing number of patients, students, families, doctors, nurses and researchers. We focused on transforming NYU Langone’s culture, and the rest followed.”
