Crouse Hospital

Crouse Hospital is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization serving Central New York. The hospital, in operation since 1887, is licensed for 506 acute-care adult beds and 57 bassinets, and serves more than 24,000 inpatients, 65,000 emergency services patients, and more than 150,000 outpatients a year from a 16-county area in Central and Northern New York.

The hospital's mission is to provide the best in patient care and to promote community health. In 2006, Crouse was named 'Business of the Year' by the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce. In 2007, the hospital was named a Top 100 Performance Improvement Leader by Thompson Healthcare for its financial, operational and quality progress. In 2008, Crouse became the first U.S. hospital to receive Workforce Management magazine's Optimas Award for General Excellence, which in the past has been given to companies such as Intel, Google and Disney.

Crouse is Central New York's largest provider of maternity care services, delivering more than 4,200 babies annually, and is the designated regional referral center for high-risk neonatal intensive care services. Other areas of specialty include comprehensive diagnostic and interventional cardiac care (Crouse is a nationally accredited Chest Pain Center, is the first accredited Heart Failure Center in NYS, and is home to CNY's only pediatric cardiac catheterization program); internal medicine; surgical services (including the latest advancements in robotic surgery); orthopedics; stroke care (Crouse is a NYS-designated stroke center and the first 'Gold Plus' stroke hospital in Syracuse, as recognized by the American Heart/Stroke Association); oncology; and the region's only hospital-based chemical dependency treatment services for adolescents, adults and seniors. The hospital also operates the Crouse Hospital College of Nursing, providing critical nursing education to more than 280 students annually.

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