NYU Langone is planning a new $650 million medical tower at its recently acquired hospital in Suffolk County.
The renovation seeks to establish 144 private patient rooms at NYU Langone Hospital – Suffolk, part of an ongoing effort to modernize the 306-bed facility, according to a certificate-of-need application submitted to the Department of Health on Friday. The multimillion-dollar project adds to a series of investments NYU has made in the Patchogue hospital in recent years to prepare for a merger finalized in March.
The new medical tower will be the first phase of a campus-wide reboot to improve the facility, some components of which have not been updated since the 1950s, said Dr. Marc Adler, the hospital’s senior vice president and chief of operations. Private patient rooms within the intensive care unit and medical-surgical department are a cornerstone of the project, as they provide patients with a better environment to recover from medical procedures and more privacy to communicate with their clinicians, Adler said. The project does not seek to add or reduce the total bed count at the hospital, the filing said.
NYU Langone officially acquired its Suffolk County hospital, formerly known as Long Island Community Hospital, in March following a three-year affiliation to improve patient outcomes and turn around the hospital’s financial challenges. NYU Langone, which earned more than $14.2 billion in revenue last year, invested at least $100 million to modernize the facility, rolled out a new electronic health record system and hired more than 100 doctors and advanced practitioners to staff the facility before completing the merger. Since the merger, the average daily patient census has increased by 40%, a trend that Adler says has created more demand for service expansions.
The health system is building a growing network of medical facilities on eastern Long Island, most recently opening a 6,000 square-foot ambulatory care center to offer primary care and cardiology services in Westhampton Beach earlier this month.
