Catholic Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

Good Samaritan University Hospital/St. Catherine of Siena Hospital is a Catholic Health Long Island community teaching program based in the Suffern/Long Island corridor, training general surgery residents within a faith-based, community hospital network rather than a freestanding academic medical center. The clinical environment draws on two affiliated community hospitals serving a broad payer mix including substantial Medicaid and Medicare managed-care populations, reflecting a bread-and-butter general surgery caseload rather than a quaternary referral practice. Available website content emphasizes institutional community health mission and multi-specialty graduate medical education infrastructure (including psychiatry and pediatric emergency medicine fellowships) more than surgery-specific research output, procedural volume data, or named subspecialty tracks. The program's identity is best read as a community-based general surgery training pathway embedded in a mission-driven health system rather than a research-intensive or fellowship-pipeline program.