New York Medical College partners with Rockland hospital

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.