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Establishes first Physical Therapy Department in the United States
Northwell: A History of Firsts
1938
Performs first angio- cardiography in the United States
1967
Opens first cardiac catheterization unit in New York Metro area
1993
Opens the Center for Emergency Medical Services — the largest hospital-based emergency services
East
2002
Launches the health care industry’s largest “corporate university” — the Center for Learning and Innovation (CLI) and the Patient Safety Institute (PSI), featuring the region’s first simulation lab —
in the United States
2011
Welcomes inaugural class of 40 students to New York State’s first new allopathic medical school in 40 years
2018
Named one of Time magazine’s top innovators for its development of “The Fin,” an amphibious prosthetic leg
2015
Teams with Yale- New Haven Health to launch SkyHealth, the region’s first hospital-based helicopter emergency medical service
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