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New York-Presbyterian Hospital is a prominent university hospital in New York City, composed of two medical centers, Columbia University Medical Center and New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, each affiliated with an Ivy League University.

New York-Presbyterian Hospital was formed in 1997 with the merger of The New York Hospital and The Presbyterian Hospital.

The New York Hospital had been founded in 1771 by a Royal Charter granted by King George III of England, and was the second oldest hospital in America. The Presbyterian Hospital was founded in 1868 by James Lenox, a New York philanthropist.

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Welcome to the Columbia University Department of Neurological Surgery (314 words)
	The Neurosurgery department of the Neurological Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center represents the most comprehensive multisubspecialty group in the New York metropolitan area.
	Neurosurgery is one of 16 clinical departments at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical center, composed of 12 attending neurosurgeons in academic private practice, doing over 2000 operations per year.
	By any measure, the Neurosurgery department at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center is considered one of the best neurosurgery programs in the United States.

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