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7. Phelps Memorial Hospital Center is awaiting final approval from
New York State for construction of a $15 million surgi-center. The 20,000 square-foot facility will be located on the third floor of Phelps’ newest building, the 755 Medical Services Building, with a bridge connecting
it to the main hospital. Five state of the art operating rooms will be created to provide optimal environments for both ambulatory and inpatient surgeries. The new O.R. suite will complement the existing operating rooms in the main hospital and will double Phelps’ surgical capacity. Highlights of the beautifully designed facility include extra-large rooms that will accommodate the latest advances
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in technology and allow for a wide range of surgical procedures to be performed at Phelps.
8. The opening of The Beale Wound Treatment & Hyperbaric Center last December, part of the multi-million dollar revitalization plan for Mount Vernon Hospital, represents a partnership between Sound Shore Health System and National Healing Corporation to provide highly specialized treatments for patients with chronic wounds. Located on the fifth floor of Mount Vernon Hospital, the Center specializes in internal medicine, orthopedics, podiatry, infectious diseases and general surgery,
and provides hyperbaric oxygen therapy, negative pressure, wound therapy, and other advanced procedures.
9. New York-Presbyterian Hospital, along with its affiliated medical schools, Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, started construction on the new Center for Autism and the Developing Brain at the Hospital’s Westchester campus in White Plains. Developed in collaboration
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11,000-square-foot, state of the art facility
will open in early 2013. Its mission is to provide cutting-edge research, education, and comprehensive services to people with autism spectrum disorders (ADS) at every stage of life.
10. The Bristal Assisted Living
recently opened it’s eighth community and its first in Westchester at 305 North Street in White Plains, to meet the growing needs of a segment of the region’s population that insists on enhancing their quality of life while remaining close to the families they love during their retirement years. The Bristal Assisted Living communities have
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12. Danbury Hospital is also growing with a new garage and Tower. When the Blue Garage on Hospital Avenue re-opens this winter, it will be limited to employees until
all major construction is finished. The main parking area and entry will remain the Locust Ave entrance for patients and visitors for the duration of the full project. Completion is set for early 2014.
13. St. John’s Riverside Hospital
is seeking $10 million in state funding to expand its emergency room. The Yonkers hospital wants to increase its Emergency Department from 19 treatment areas to 29. The expansion would allow the hospital
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been critically acclaimed for their elegant surroundings, an active recreational calendar, and personal care assistance, provided by a caring and seasoned staff. The Bristal offers the highest standards in design, comfort, and safety in a community that recognizes that assisted living can, and should, foster feelings of independence, security, and socialization.
11. Stamford Hospital and Charter Oak Communities celebrated their organizations’ collaborative effort to revitalize Stamford’s West Side with the upcoming demolition of the outdated Vidal Court housing units and the ongoing construction for the new $450 million hospital. When completed in 2016, it will include: patient care units with private rooms and private bathrooms; Emergency Department with separate treatment areas for trauma, cardiac, urgent, behavioral health, and pediatric patients; larger surgical suites to accommodate advance technology; a new Pediatric Unit to centralize mother-child services; an expanded Intensive Care Unit, and a central location for all Heart & Vascular Institute services.
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to reorganize the department to create
six urgent care stations, 20 emergency beds, one resuscitation bed, and two beds dedicated for behavioral health.
The expansion, which officials said would cost a total of $15 million, is needed to accommodate an increase in patient visits.
14. White Plains Hospital is undergoing a campus-wide transformation that will ensure the Hospital’s ability to continue to provide exceptional care for
the community into the future. The Time
Is Now $100 million capital campaign includes construction of a new, enhanced Outpatient Radiology Center, which is underway. The larger space will allow the Hospital to continue to provide the cutting edge technology for which it is known. An expansion of the Hospital’s Surgical Services Department is also in progress, featuring a new state of the art operating room. Both projects are expected to be completed later this year and are the start of a multi-phase capital campaign.
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