Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center will be a teaching site for New York Medical College”™s health sciences education programs in a new academic affiliation announced on Thursday by the school in Valhalla and hospital in Suffern. The 286-bed Rockland County hospital is one of three hospitals in the Bon Secours Charity Health System in the lower Hudson Valley.
The institutional partners said they will start a clerkship program at the hospital for the training and education of the Westchester school”™s undergraduate medical students on rotations in pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, neurology and other disciplines.
Noting there are many New York Medical College alumni on the Good Samaritan medical staff, Dr. Edward C. Halperin, the college”™s chancellor and CEO, said the partnership “presents a unique opportunity to continue our common mission to provide the highest caliber of care to those we serve and the best possible medical education to those we teach.”
Founded in 1860, New York Medical College has been part of the Touro College and University System since 2011. The 3,400-employee Bon Secours Charity Health System also includes Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis and St. Anthony Community Hospital in Warwick.
