{{Short description|Healthcare service provider and medical facility manager}} {{use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{use American English|date=November 2020}} '''Preferred Health Network''' is a non-profit network of hospitals that was formed in 1989.<ref name=FlushHos.NYT1993/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://sec.report/Document/0001015402-02-000163 |title=Form DEF 14A New York Health Care Inc / DEF 14A - Other definitive proxy statements |accessdate=November 24, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/bbal/secfilings?subview=secarticle%26guid=1730999%26type=313 |title=BBAL New York Health Care Inc. secarticle SEC Filings}}</ref> That same year, they took over the managing of Brooklyn's Wyckoff Heights Medical Center<ref name=FlushHos.NYT1993/> and Jackson Heights' ''Physicians Hospital''.<ref name=PrefHealthNet.DNews89>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Daily News |url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/467021585 |title=Ailing Hospital Gets a Manager |date=October 9, 1989}}</ref> When several other hospitals were facing a choice between "closing down or seeking protection in a merger" the result was that "Ten hospitals in Nassau and Queens have become Preferred Health Network."<ref name=PrefHealthNet.NYT94>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/15/nyregion/health-care-hospital-chains-small-institutions-choose-survival-over-independence.html |title=Health Care and Hospital Chains; Small Institutions Choose Survival Over Independence |author=Iver Peterson |date=November 15, 1994}}</ref>
==History== Having started in 1989 with one hospital,<ref name=FlushHos.NYT1993/> and shortly thereafter another,<ref name=PrefHealthNet.DNews89/> they grew to ten.<ref name=PrefHealthNet.NYT94/> However, by 1996 they were down to four hospitals, and ready for being taken over by New York Hospital; they had also added "more than 20 primary care facilities in Brooklyn and Queens."<ref name=PrefHealthNet.Crain96>{{cite news |newspaper=Crain's New York Business |url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/19960304/SUB/603040709/big-ny-hospital-in-talks-to-buy-queens-system-deal-would-hike-market-share-nab-trophy-primary-care-facilities-in-borou |title=Big NY Hospital in talks to buy Queens system: Deal would hike market share, nab trophy primary-care facilities in boroughs |author=Barbara Benson |date=March 3, 1996}}</ref><ref name=FlushHos.NYT1993>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/13/nyregion/takeover-of-flushing-hospital-leads-to-a-review.html |title=Takeover of Flushing Hospital Leads to a Review |author=Steven Lee Myers |date=May 13, 1993}}</ref>
In 1996 ''Crain's New York Business'' wrote that "the real jewels of PHN are the primary care centers that dot Brooklyn and Queens" and explained that these ''primary care'' centers provide "low-cost delivery of health care" and also enable hospitals to "capture more seriously ill patients to fill their beds."<ref name=PrefHealthNet.Crain96/>
==See also== * Flushing Hospital Medical Center
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