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JULY 2004

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.#

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