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North Shore University Hospital (the “Hospital”) is a voluntary hospital established as a New  York not-for-profit corporation licensed under the laws of the State of New York.  The Hospital includes the Manhasset Campus and the Syosset Campus (“Campus”).  The Hospital is part of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System (“Health System”) whose mission is to improve the health of the communities its healthcare institutions serve with a commitment to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations of health care professionals; searching for new advances in medicine through the conduct of bio-medical research; promoting health education; and caring for the entire community regardless of ability to pay.

In accordance with the Hospital’s mission, the Hospital is committed to accomplishing the following objectives:

• To ensure that all patients admitted to or treated in any of the facilities, campuses, departments or services of the Hospital shall receive the best possible care, irrespective of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran’s status, marital status, age, disability, or their ability to pay for such care.
• To provide reliable and valid measures for the continuous evaluation of the overall quality of care provided to all patients of the Hospital and to make recommendations thereon to the Board of Trustees so that all patients admitted or treated at any of the facilities, departments or services of the Hospital receive a safe and high quality of care.
• To ensure a high level of professional performance of all members of the Medical Staff through the appropriate delineation of privileges to practice in the Hospital and the regular review and evaluation of the activities of all individuals granted clinical privileges in the Hospital.
• To provide education and maintain the highest scientific and educational standards in cooperation with the Hospital’s affiliated medical schools and to ensure an optimum atmosphere for continuous progress in professional knowledge and skill of all members of the Medical Staff and those allied health practitioners affiliated with the Medical Staff.
• To initiate and maintain rules and regulations for the governance of the Medical Staff.
• To discuss issues concerning the patients, Medical Staff and the Hospital with the Board of Trustees, the Chief Executive Officer and the Executive Director, through authorized representatives and structures of the Medical Staff, such as the Medical Board and the Committee on Quality.
• To stimulate and foster approved clinical and laboratory research by members of the Medical Staff and to assist in providing funds therefor.
• To support programs associated with community public health needs.
• To conduct all of the above activities with an overriding concern for the patient and the recognition of his or her dignity as a human being.
• To render other services as are reasonably necessary to carry out the foregoing purposes as well as any other related purposes.

It is recognized that the Medical Staff of the Hospital shares responsibility for the quality of patient care and performance improvement at the Hospital and must accept and discharge that responsibility, subject to the ultimate authority of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital Corporation ("Corporation"), and that the cooperative efforts of the Board of Trustees, the CEO, the Executive Director, the Chief Medical Officer, the Medical Director and the Medical Staff are necessary to fulfill the Hospital's obligations to its patients.

In order to further the aims and purposes of the Hospital, therefore, the practitioners practicing at the Hospital have organized themselves into a Medical Staff in conformity with these By-Laws, and Rules and Regulations, which are subject to and shall not conflict with the By-Laws of the Hospital Corporation.