Northern Westchester Hospital


Northern Westchester Hospital now known as Northwell Health is a not-for-profit, 245-bed, all private room facility in Mount Kisco, New York serving residents of Northern Westchester, Putnam County, and Southern Dutchess County, as well as parts of Fairfield County, CT. It was founded in 1916. Actor Christopher Reeve, died there on October 10, 2004.
With more than 700 physicians, Northern Westchester Hospital provides a wide range of patient-centered services through its Emergency Department, Women's Imaging Center, Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Clinical trials program, and Gamma Knife center. Northern Westchester Hospital is a designated training and case observation center for the da Vinci Surgical System in colorectal surgery. NWH breast surgeons provide Microvascular Surgery using the Novadaq SPY Imaging System. A number of bariatric surgical procedures are performed, including Stomach Intestinal Pylorus-Sparing Surgery.

History

Opening its doors in 1916, Northern Westchester Hospital consisted of 15 beds and 6 primary physicians. A committee composed of William Sloane, Moses Taylor, Joseph C. Baldwin, Jr., Edwin G. Merrill, John Henry Towne, Winthrop Cowdin, Cornelius R. Agnew, and Hiram E. Manville had been set up to organize the hospital and its creation. On May 8, 1916 the first hospital meeting was held, giving way to the historic election of the hospitals first president, William Sloane, and its first board of directors. Erected on a 2 ½ acre parcel of land, and filling 12 out of the initial 15 beds within its first day, NWH would soon prove to be a vital part of the community.
In the early 1920s the population growth of Westchester and upstate New York made it a necessity for NWH to expand. Beginning in April 1925 the hospital would expand into a 50-room facility to meet the needs of a more sophisticated healthcare system, adding with it a state of the art radiology facility. As the community continued to grow a new construction initiative would commence in 1958. Consisting of a new 3 story wing, the project would be completed in 1961 adding 89 new beds. The hospital would see its last major expansion for the era in 1973. The opening of the DeWitt Wallace Pavilion added 259 new beds, allowing NWH to enter a new age of patient-centered care. Following the expansion, the hospital would narrow its focus on acquiring the latest technology to better serve the community and region. In 1989 the first Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Digital subtraction angiography were installed, setting precedent for the hospitals cutting edge technology for years to come.
Northern Westchester Hospital joined the North Shore-LIJ Health System in January 2015. The health system is now known as Northwell Health. Northern Westchester Hospital modernized its surgical services facility in April 2016 to include six new operating rooms and 13 private pre- and post-anesthesia care beds.
Northern Westchester Hospital celebrated its centennial year in 2016 with various community and staff events, such as partnerships with area historical societies, community walks, Board of Trustees and neo-natal intensive care unit reunions, and employee and community galas.

Medical specialties

As a comprehensive acute care hospital, NWH provides patient-center care in the following services:
Northern Westchester Hospital has received the following awards and recognition: