A newly equipped hospital is opening on the site of the former St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Greenwich Village.
What was once an extension clinic of the Upper East Side’s Lenox Hill Hospital, known as Lenox Health Greenwich Village, will now be a fully-functioning cardiac and stroke center called Northwell Greenwich Village Hospital, officials will announce Monday. The announcements follows the addition of a cardiac catheterization lab and inpatient beds, allowing the hospital to receive and admit heart attack patients and others from its freestanding emergency room.
The opening represents the first time a hospital has occupied a site on Manhattan’s lower west side since St. Vincent’s closed at the same location in 2010, part of wave of hospital closures and consolidation within larger health system’s. The extension site, which opened in 2014, has offered a 24/7 emergency department and ambulatory surgery, but had to redirect cardiac and other emergencies when they arrived. The hospital is now one of few in the area that will be able to receive cardiac emergencies and admit patients since Mount Sinai Beth Israel closed earlier this month.
The expansion added 16,000 square feet to the facility and cost Northwell Health $32 million, $5 million less than previously estimated. It will add eight beds for inpatient admissions, approximately 80% of whom are expected to come through the emergency department, said spokeswoman Margarita Oksenkrug.
The addition also includes cath lab and electrophysiology services, used in the treatment of heart disease, which will be available for emergency and elective procedures.
The facility was recently certified to take stroke patients but still cannot accept traumas by ambulance, leaving the nearest trauma center Bellevue Hospital Center, a public hospital close to two miles away.
The new offerings add to the facility’s existing imaging, orthopedic and gastroenterology services.
