Tisch Hospital

Tisch Hospital is one
of three hospitals that comprise
NYU Hospitals Center.

Tisch Hospital was founded in 1882 as the New York Post Graduate Hospital and became part of NYU Medical Center in 1947. A major teaching hospital of NYU School of Medicine, Tisch is considered one of New York's finest acute-care general hospitals. Tisch is staffed by 1,500 attending physicians - all members of the NYU School of Medicine faculty - 400 house officers, and 1,200 nurses, one-fifth of whom are certified nurse specialists.

Tisch, which contains 726 beds, houses most of the Medical Center's inpatient services. Each year, the Hospital handles about 36,000 inpatient and 600,000 ambulatory visits and performs 25,000 surgeries. Tisch's Emergency Department, a Level II Trauma Center, records approximately 13,000 annual visits. The Hospital's new Comprehensive Stroke Care Center, which includes a 30-bed rehabilitation unit in the Rusk Institute, was the first to be designated a Primary Stroke Center by the New York State Department of Health.