Mount Sinai kicks off $500 million makeover in downtown NYC
Mount Sinai Health System today launched the first phase of its $500 million project to rebuild Mount Sinai Beth Israel and create the new “Mount Sinai Downtown” network in New York City.
The project, which stretches from the East River to the Hudson River below 34th Street, will consist of expanded and renovated outpatient facilities at three major sites with more than 35 operating and procedure rooms and a network of 16 physician practice locations with more than 600 doctors.
Mount Sinai Downtown will be anchored by a new Mount Sinai Beth Israel inpatient hospital with operating and procedure rooms, and a state-of-the-art emergency department, located two blocks from the existing MSBI.
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The transformation will also include a major investment to support and strengthen behavioral health services, anchored at MSBI’s Bernstein Pavilion.
Mount Sinai CEO Kenneth Davis, MD, said that the modernization project will transform how patients access and receive care services in downtown New York.
The hospital system announced the undertaking back in May, calling it “a dramatic step toward a new model of care that continues to employ technology and stays focused on keeping populations healthy and out of hospitals.”
As part of the project, Mount Sinai will rename its Phillips Ambulatory Care Center to Mount Sinai Downtown Union Square and upgrade the unit to a specialized care facility with a new urgent care center.
Mount Sinai Cancer Center West has also been renamed Mount Sinai Downtown Chelsea Center, and it will include a new Women’s Cancer Center. And the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai will be preserved and enhanced.
MSBI hospital and its emergency room will remain open until the new ED is fully operational.
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