On Thursday, July 16, 2026, Catholic Health and GE HealthCare pulled the curtain back on a sweeping 10-year technology partnership that they say will pump roughly $500 million in imaging, diagnostics and AI tools into hospitals and outpatient sites across Long Island. Branded as a Care Alliance, the deal is built to standardize equipment, trim diagnostic delays and expand specialty imaging, from cardiac scans to cancer workups and maternal monitoring, at dozens of locations. Installations are slated to begin within months, with about half of the new units scheduled to arrive in the first three years.
According to GE HealthCare, the agreement covers more than 1,300 pieces of technology across 40-plus Catholic Health sites and pairs the hardware with cloud, software and AI-enabled solutions. The Care Alliance spans CT, PET/CT, MRI, mammography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and diagnostic cardiology and includes a 10-year multivendor service agreement meant to handle lifecycle management, maintenance and clinician education. GE says the package is designed to keep machines up longer, open up more appointment slots and shorten the time from imaging to treatment.
Which Hospitals Will Get Upgrades
The announcement names St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center, Good Samaritan University Hospital, St. Charles, St. Joseph, St. Catherine of Siena and Mercy Hospital among the sites in line for expanded imaging and nuclear medicine capabilities. Catholic Health lists those facilities as part of its six-hospital network serving Nassau and Suffolk counties, and the system says clinical teams will help decide where specific technologies land. The deal also extends upgrades to dozens of ambulatory locations, a move intended to bring more advanced diagnostics closer to patients' neighborhoods instead of forcing longer hospital trips.
Part Of A Bigger GE Push
The Long Island Care Alliance lines up with a series of multi-year enterprise partnerships GE has been signing with large health systems as it leans harder into integrated hardware plus software offerings. For example, Fierce Healthcare reported on a roughly $1 billion Care Alliance that GE announced with Sutter Health, which executives described as a way to standardize fleets, cut costs and speed access to advanced imaging across a wide network.
"This Care Alliance represents an important investment in the future of health care on Long Island," Catholic Health Interim President and CEO Gary Havican said in the announcement. The companies say the program bakes in clinician collaboration, including an on-site cardiovascular scientist, to help line up technology choices with physician needs and patient priorities. GE HealthCare also highlights plans for ongoing education and training for caregivers across the system so staff are not just getting new machines, but also the skills to use them.
How The Financing And Rollout Work
GE and Catholic Health say the pact uses unitary payments and accelerators that, in the vendors' telling, can generate capital savings compared with traditional one-off purchases, freeing up resources for program growth and patient access. Coverage of the announcement by Crain's Chicago Business notes that equipment additions will be phased and that some upgrades could arrive within months.
For Long Island patients, Catholic Health and GE say the practical impact should be more appointment choices and faster access to advanced scans and biopsy services, with visible benefits expected in the first year as the earliest units go live. Hospital leaders on the island will oversee decisions about where to place the equipment, how to structure clinician training and what workflow changes are needed as the program rolls out, and the companies have provided media contacts in their announcements for reporters seeking technical specifics.
