RADIATION INSTALLATION: Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Glen Oaks, Queens, is installing a new high-dose rate enclosure for the treatment of certain types of cancer with radiation. The project will renovate 443 square feet of space in the radiation medicine department on the first floor of one of the hospital’s extension clinics, according to a filing with the state Department of Health. Construction will cost just over $1 million and take five months to complete, the filing states.
CARDIAC SURGERY: Mount Sinai South Nassau is seeking to certify a new adult cardiac surgery program at the Oceanside-based facility, documents filed with the state Health Department show. The operating rooms for the new unit are under construction as part of a $145 million four-story expansion to the main campus that includes the conversion of 14 medical/surgical beds to six intensive care and eight coronary care beds, according to a previous filing with the state. The latest filings include a $1.3 million addition of equipment to the new ORs.
DOCTORS’ STRIKE: Mayor Eric Adams sent a letter to Doctors Council, Physician Affiliate Group of New York and Mount Sinai on Friday to urge the parties to come back to the bargaining table and avoid a strike. Doctors Council, a union representing public hospital doctors and physicians, announced that physicians from four public hospitals plan to strike on Jan. 13 if administrators don’t reach an agreement to improve their pay and benefits. Adams requested that the physicians, their employers and representatives from New York City Health + Hospitals commit to further negotiations with the assistance of a mutually agreeable mediator to help them reach an agreement. The mayor asked the parties to advise his office about their intentions to negotiate by the end of the day today.
