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NORTHWELL HEALTH of “a physical footprint made up of 10 build- Another common trait of the hospital con- Advances in healthcare fuel ings stitched together over the course of a struction boom is the move to all-private century. In no way is this conducive to 21st rooms. The trend is about much more than century medicine,” said Tomas Rossant, a keeping up with competitors or design partner at Ennead Architects, which appealing to patient preferences for privacy NYC hospital redesign is working on the Lenox Hill redesign. and comfort.

The pressure to rebuild is traceable to Private rooms are now industry standard ’s $2.5 billion, 10-year vision broad changes in how health care is de- because they provide patients with a When Northwell Health announced plans to rebuild livered. Many procedures that once were non-stressful, quiet environment condu- the 160-year old Lenox Hill Hospital at an estimated based in hospitals are now safely handled cive to recovery. For patients, a private for Lenox Hill Hospital in outpatient settings, where care is deliv- room does away with the stranger on the cost of $2.5 billion, it joined the ranks of health sys- ered at a lower cost and with greater con- other side of a fabric curtain who may venience for patients. In addition, hospitals disrupt their sleep with moaning, coughing or constant chatter on the phone. There To help finance the cost of Northwell tems set to transform outdated facilities into hospi- are taking care of sicker patients who need NORTHWELL HEALTH announced an ambitious plan in March to rebuild Lenox is no blaring television. Conversations with Health’s vision for Lenox Hill, Dowling is increasingly complex care. Advances in Hill Hospital, its flagship. A new hospital will upgrade services and looking to the development of a 41-story tals built for the future. In 2018 alone, a dozen health medicine have turned once-deadly illness- physicians and nurses are not overheard residential building fronting on , es into chronic conditions, while people by roommates. Private rooms also have infrastructure to meet modern standards, with all single-bedded patient rooms, with about 200 units. Real estate experts ex- systems nationwide unveiled construction projects also are living longer. space for family to visit or stay overnight comfortably. plained that if Northwell Health “could use a worth $1 billion or more in response to emerging “Hospitals are primarily becoming intensive an expanded , new surgical suites and enhanced clinical portion of the Park Avenue side for residen- care facilities,” said Dowling. “It’s a national But private rooms serve a clinical purpose, tial development, we could offset costs for trend, driven by demographics and the fact too. They are safer, because infection con- rebuilding Lenox Hill,” said Dowling. technologies, new industry standards, and shifting spaces. It will cost approximately $2.5 billion to completely rebuild the iconic that more care is delivered in ambulatory trol is easier when a patient is not sharing a institution, which was founded in 1857. Similar real estate strategies have long patient preferences. The hospital construction boom care settings.” room. Hospitals with private rooms also are been used by nonprofit, religious and more efficient. The configuration removes The trend has forced hospitals to adapt cultural institutions to fund their core mis- is playing out across the country. the logistical headache of matching pa- to medicine that is far more dependent tients by gender or isolating a patient who OU CANNOT GO FORWARD with ago, it became clear that Lenox Hill must Lenox Hill is also planning a new Mother- sions. Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, for on advances in technology. One example is contagious or vulnerable to infection. “ a hospital that’s 160 years old,” be completely rebuilt instead of ineffi- Baby hospital at the northwest corner example, sold five former hospital build- IN 2017, Pittsburgh-based UPMC an- vital structure that will enable the MGH to is telemedicine, a technology that hospi- Both are reasons why some beds remain said Michael Dowling, president ciently stabilizing long-outdated facilities. of the campus, with a separate lobby ings to a residential developer. nounced a $2 billion investment to create deliver 21st century care in a 21st century tals use now for everything from second empty in rooms with multiple beds. and chief executive officer of entrance on Park Avenue. It will feature Hospital Center decided to sell off one of “The $200 million could have been $1 opinions to consultations with specialists. Y its buildings and use proceeds to develop three new specialty hospitals “offering environment,” Mass General’s President Pe- Northwell Health. “We want to continue an expanded neonatal intensive care unit, Private rooms also can readily accommo- billion spent on renovating an old place, next-generation treatments and whole ter Slavin wrote in an email to employees But clinicians envision a time when every to provide the best medical care in New with more spots for newborns and sick new facilities on its hospital campus. St. date the sophisticated but bulky equipment and we still would not have the result we new ways of delivering patient care.” The introducing the project. private room will have a telemedicine York City in a futuristic hospital, while babies and ten times the current square Bartholomew’s Church penned a deal to that has proliferated with enhancements in wanted,” said Dowling. need to adapt to future health care trends monitor on the wall. For now, doctors maintaining Lenox Hill’s legacy in the footage. There will be more labor and de- sell air rights to JPMorgan Chase, which is Lenox Hill’s overhaul is the latest example medical technology. As routine care and also is driving a $1 billion investment at tolerate current circumstances until these community.” With the exception of one building, all livery suites, newborn nurseries and other building new Park Avenue headquarters. of a competitive health care of Lenox Hill predates the 1970s, a time The revitalization plan will take place in when the industry standard for operating stages over more than eight years. The suites was one-third of the space required hospital will remain open and operational to support today’s modern equipment. “As new technologies and throughout construction. Some aspects Back then, double- or multiple-occupancy of the project require city and commu- rooms also were common. customer preferences nity approval, and Lenox Hill is strongly “We started talking about what would a committed to open communication and continue to shape the new hospital look like, and how could we engagement with the local community afford to build it?” recalls Dowling. future of health care, this throughout the planning process, added Dowling. The resulting project would expand Lenox has a profound impact Hill to 1.3 million square feet, up from When Northwell Health took over the 780,000 square feet, and add a 30-story on the type of spaces that financially troubled hospital in 2010, it tower. The modernized hospital will con- needed a substantial overhaul. A col- vert to all single-bedded patient rooms for need to be designed to lection of 10 buildings, some of them greater privacy, better infection control and accommodate change.” erected more than a century ago, Lenox improved staff workflow. There will be 475 Hill occupies a city block between Park private rooms, up from 450 staffed beds, and Lexington Avenues, from East 76th to each providing patients with more than Tomas Rossant East 77th Streets. 100 square feet of additional Design partner at Ennead Architects space to better accommodate modern medical equipment, as well as larger bathrooms. “Every community member, market marked by significant investments The crowded emergency Lenox Hill has a delicate challenge ahead. new hospitals are built. Telemedicine procedures have shifted in recent years to specialty services, while the project adds North Carolina’s Atrium Health, which last to update or replace hospitals. In 2018, as they age, will need a great department, which currently It is committed to building a hospital equipment, for example, is moved around outpatient settings, hospitals increasingly 16 additional postpartum beds. All rooms year announced plans to create state-of- New York-Presbyterian completed con- treats about 56,000 emer- of the future that will continue to serve on mobile carts, taking up valuable space. are reserved for the sickest patients. The place to be taken care of. We will be private. the-art facilities and technology to “repo- struction of a $1.1 billion, 740,000-square- gency patients annually, will the community around it, but that goal delivery of complex care requires more sition the system for the next 50 years.” foot ambulatory care facility on York Another technology ill-adapted to old hos- will be able to do more than expand to 53,000 square feet The project also seeks to dramatically also means years-long construction for equipment as well as bedsides crowded from its current 14,300 square improve traffic congestion on the two the surrounding neighborhood. Dowl- Boston is home to several rebuilding Avenue. By 2020, the Manhattan site will pitals is telemetry, which provides data from with caregivers. Space is simply unavailable we ever could before.” feet. Plans also call for a new side streets that frame the campus. With ing knows that the rebuilding project is projects. A $1.2 billion Boston Children’s add a $300 million hospital for women special equipment to track the vital signs of in old hospitals. outpatient care center on Third the emergency department’s entrance disruptive to the community, but at the Hospital expansion is already underway, and newborns, with 75 private rooms and patients who need constant monitoring and Michael Dowling “New York City is unique in that hospitals same time essential, because Lenox Hill incubators, and 60 neonatal intensive care care. Wireless options are available, but at Avenue between E. 76th and E. on E. 77th Street, ambulances inch down while Beth Israel Deaconess Medical have rooms with two or even four beds. President and chief executive officer incubators. NYU Langone Health recently 77th Streets. the block when cars are double-parked to realistically can’t remain as it is. Center plans to start construction this many hospitals, only some floors are wired of Northwell Health In other parts of the U.S., private rooms drop off or pick up patients. The hospital’s completed what it called “the largest and for telemetry. In the future, patients will be In design and function, the “Manhattan is the epicenter of change. year on a $630 million, 10-story inpatient have been the standard for 30 years,” said loading docks can’t fit delivery trucks, and most extensive revitalization” in its history. able to get the same level of telemetry care rebuilt hospital is geared toward You can’t walk two blocks without seeing tower, where private rooms will replace Northwell’s Dowling. “Because of New so they periodically block sidewalks. The on any floor, from any room. future technologies. As Dowl- change,” Dowling said. “That’s life, and double-bedded ones. The lack of private Lenox Hill—a collection of 10 buildings, the York’s legacy hospitals, we suffer with old new hospital will have off-street park- ing sees it, hospitals will treat only patients why there is a process and transparency. rooms also contributed to the decision newest built in the 1970s—must com- “As new technologies and customer infrastructure. We have a responsibility to Northwell Health, which is New York ing for up to six ambulances, relieving requiring a higher level of care, “sustaining Change is difficult for everyone, but in the by Massachusetts General Hospital to pete with Manhattan neighbors that have preferences continue to shape the future continue to make critical capital and infra- State’s largest private employer and health congestion. The loading berths will be life and longevity as we get older. Every end, the community will have an incredible embark on a $1 billion rebuilding project, poured hundreds of millions of dollars into of health care, this has a profound impact structure improvements that transform our care provider, spent more than $200 mil- reconfigured and deepened. community member, as they age, will need resource that will serve local residents for announced in January 2019. The Boston upgrading their facilities. on the type of spaces that need to be health care system into one of sustainabil- lion on capital improvements to fix urgent a great place to be taken care of. We will be “For the community, all that congestion generations to come.” will build towers with 450 designed to accommodate change,” noted ity, with a keen focus on improving patient structural problems. But about five years For years, the hospital has made the most able to do more than we ever could before.” and traffic gets taken care of,” said Dowling. single-bed patient rooms, a “much-needed, architect Rossant. care and the delivery of vital services.”

S1 | CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS | APRIL 1, 2019 APRIL 1, 2019 | CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS | S2 An Advertising Supplement to Crain’s New York Business NORTHWELL HEALTH LENOX HILL HOSPITAL future when “we are going to see younger is fixed. The patient is challenging for patients and staff alike, public health crises become all too com- babies,” added Marshall. “And there may be doesn’t need to be Duroseau adds. There is limited space to mon for cities around the world. a need for even more equipment in there.” whisked into a differ- perform a bedside ultrasound, for example, “Since the NICU was built, our The new hospital is also meant to solve ent room, because the and providers often must shift around each The envisioned NICU will be large enough chronic traffic congestion on East 77th babies have gotten smaller, which doctors are accom- other as well as a patient’s loved ones. for new technology. The new maternity Street, where the challenging entrance to At Lenox Hill, redefining excellence modated in the large unit also will improve the patient experi- “For us as providers, we have folks who the emergency department exposes pa- has required more equipment such hybrid space. ence because every room will be private. work in that stressed environment where tients to the elements, as well as vehicular Currently, two-thirds of Lenox Hill patients as specialized beds and ventilators. “We need space to we don’t have adequate space. Patients and pedestrian traffic. in patient care stay in double-bedded rooms. are still well taken care of, but we want to allow us to do better Nothing in Duroseau’s medical school Adding even more machines is provide an environment that is more con- For new moms and their supportive fami- together. The hybrid training prepared him for that situation. ducive to bedside care,” said Duroseau. lies, “shared rooms are hard,” said Marshall. challenging to do in a NICU of OR, which can ac- He’s had to direct traffic on the street and commodate open- Modern, single-bedded rooms for emer- shoo double-parked cars so that the ambu- When nurse Amy Marshall watched the March 13 episode of the hit series This is Patient satisfaction, whether derived from heart surgery and gency patients are designed to be mul- lance he was expecting could actually get a private room during maternity care our size.” stents, has changed tipurpose. Their through to the hospital Us, which revolved around a baby born at 28 weeks, it was the portrayal of the or from successful treatment during a how health care is universal format will entrance. “It’s a big cardiac scare, is critical to hospitals. High Amy Marshall neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, that absorbed her attention. Kate, the new delivered,” explained allow Duroseau’s issue,” he concedes. patient satisfaction scores drive higher Director of patient care services and maternal Singh. “It focuses us team to use the reimbursement payments, foster patient child health “We need a facility that From a clinical perspec- mom, is taken in her wheelchair by her husband Toby to see their tiny newborn. on being more collab- same room to treat loyalty, and reflect a higher level of care tive, doctors at Lenox orative. Not siloed, but people with minor represents the next and commitment from their clinicians. Hill believe a new hos- He then brings over a chair to the incubator and sits. Marshall took the scene in. collaborative.” illnesses, and keep Over the past decade, cardiac care has pital will improve the “Medicine is about taking care of the en- alive very sick pa- generation of care; it evolved beyond “siloed” care, a less-favor- The pressing need for more space is felt quality of care it can tire patient. If the patient is comfortable, tients who may need “THE PARENTS are able to be next to “Our outcomes are the best in the nation in neonatal care. Among them: premature able situation where there is limited col- in other clinical areas. Lenox Hill treat- has to be patient- and provide for its commu- you’re hitting your goal,” said Dr. Varinder ventilator, X-ray or each other by the incubator and hold in lung development rates, but our NICU babies will be surviving at increasingly laboration between thoracic surgeons and ed about 56,000 emergency patients in nity. Singh, chair of the hospital’s Depart- ultrasound machines. family-centric.” hands. It is a touching family moment. has very little space. That makes it a chal- younger ages. cardiologists who specialize in non-invasive 2018—in space built to accommodate half ment of Cardiovascular Medicine, who is “We understand there’s We are able to accommodate moments lenging work environment for nurses,” medicine. Lenox Hill has embraced a team that volume. “We need double the space to Lenox Hill’s new “Since the NICU was built, our babies responsible for the quality and delivery of Dr. Varinder Singh short-term pain from like that in our NICU,” said Marshall, a said Marshall. “You are constantly moving approach, Singh added, and that is one cover our current volume, but that volume emergency depart- have gotten smaller, which has required cardiovascular care at the hospital. Chair of the Department of construction,” said registered nurse who is the hospital’s around the baby or squeezing past the reason why the hospital invested in a $10.7 is expected to rise as the population gets ment also will solve more equipment such as specialized Cardiovascular Medicine Singh. “But with all director of patient care services and ma- family to do your job.” But future cardiac care must adapt to new million cardiovascular and thoracic surgery sicker and people live longer,” said Dr. Yves the problem of hav- beds and ventilators. Adding even more that traffic gone, and ternal child health. ways of delivering that care, Singh warns, suite that opened in 2017. Duroseau, the hospital’s chair of emergen- ing limited isolation Rebuilding Lenox Hill, said Marshall, is machines is challenging to do in a NICU the improvements in and that is why rebuilding Lenox Hill is so cy medicine. rooms. A new hospi- Still, Marshall would love to have Lenox needed to provide more family-centered, of our size,” said Marshall. Its centerpiece is a hybrid operating room patient care, this rede- critical. tal also will be able to Hill’s tiniest babies cared for in a unit with private patient rooms where parents can that is used for both traditional open sur- Patients are doubled up in rooms built velopment will provide a long-term benefit The gestational age for a premature baby let Lenox Hill manage surges in emergency more abundant private space for patients. spend the night with their babies. But she “We need a facility that represents the geries and less-invasive procedures. That for one, taking away the dignity of being that is a community asset.” to survive is roughly 23 weeks. But with demand, at a time when flu outbreaks, argues that it is also critical to have infra- next generation of care,” he said. “It has to means Singh might examine a patient’s treated in private, at a time when they “One of the great things about working advances in prenatal care, there may be a mass shootings, natural disasters and other structure that is adaptable to future trends be patient- and family-centric.” coronary artery at the same time a valve are most vulnerable. That lack of space in a relatively small NICU is the sense of intimacy it provides for our family and staff,” she said. “Our parents often com- ment on how well they know our NICU staff. However, we are looking forward to having a private place for our parents to take a break and bond with a premature or sick infant as currently there are very limited options.” Lenox Hill is investing in a new Mother- Baby Hospital. Plans call for a facility that accommodates mothers and family members in a private setting. With its sep- arate entrance, the Mother-Baby Hospital will feature a spacious, expanded NICU. It also will offer a range of and gynecology services, including more labor and delivery suites, newborn nurseries and other specialty services. Proposed new Mother-Baby All rooms would be private “Lenox Hill is very famous for OB,” said Hospital entrance. Image and more spacious. Image is Michael Dowling, president and chief is for illustrative purposes only. for illustrative purposes only. executive of Northwell Health, which operates Lenox Hill. “They do phenome- nal work. But they work under extremely Rebuilding Hospital Patient Rooms Traffic difficult conditions.” Existing Proposed Existing Proposed Existing Proposed Doctors, nurses and other providers at 780,000 square feet 1.3 million square feet Double occupancy Single occupancy No ambulance parking Off-street parking for up to Lenox Hill have made a passionate clinical six ambulances Lenox Hill 450 staffed beds 475 private rooms Shared space Decreased risk of infection case for rebuilding their outdated facility. Loading docks can’t fit Deeper docks to accomodate The current cramped layout requires cli- 300 square feet OR suites Up to 730 square feet OR suites Limited caregiver zone Caregiver zone delivery trucks delivery trucks nicians to be creative in practicing current with sterile core Confined family space More family space cutting-edge medicine, let alone accom- Limited space for NICU New Mother-Baby Hospital modating technologies of the future. In 16 additional postpartum beds Limited privacy Patient confidentiality specialties such as emergency medicine, New outpatient care center Small 100 square feet larger and maternity, clinicians strong- “...this redevelopment will provide a long-term ly support Northwell Health’s $2.5 billion Emergency department Gender matching for shared rooms Resolved with private rooms investment in a reimagined Lenox Hill. benefit that is a community asset.” Existing Proposed Contagious patients need isolation Resolved with private rooms Newly built maternity hospitals place No space for new technology Space to accomodate Dr. Yves Duroseau NICUs in private patient rooms, with 14,300 square feet 53,000 square feet new technology Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine space to pump milk, talk softly to a new- 56,000 patients in 2018 Expected to grow born, or cope with the stress of a medi- cally fragile infant.

S3 | CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS | APRIL 1, 2019 APRIL 1, 2019 | CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS | S4 Three student nurses assist An Advertising Supplement to Crain’s New York Business NORTHWELL HEALTH LENOX HILL HOSPITAL in the demolition of an older building to make way been a pioneer. The country’s first angio- “Working closely with Northwell Health, we and nurses to read to them in their schools. prehensive outpatient, hospital, and long- for the new Black Hall of cardiography was performed at the hospi- Nursing in 1961 Northwell are proposing single-bedded rooms for more The hospital also hosts healthy teaching term care to an expanding geographic area tal in 1938. Lenox Hill doctors opened the privacy, expanded operating rooms and kitchens. And last year, 22 Northwell Health around New York City. It operates eight hos- city’s first cardiac care unit in 1967. emergency department to accommodate facilities were designated as Leaders in pitals throughout the city, a specialty facility Health gives the latest technology, and a completely rede- LGBTQ Healthcare Equality by the Human known as Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hos- Lenox Hill’s rich history: “No advance in cardiology has saved more signed exterior to alleviate the traffic conges- Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2018 Health- pital, a freestanding emergency center and patients than the cardiac care unit,” said tion outside the hospital,” said Tomas Rossant, care Equality Index, a national benchmark- outpatient facility located at Lenox Health Dr. Varinder Singh, chair of the hospital’s back to the a design partner at Ennead Architects. ing tool that measures inclusiveness of the Greenwich Village, 17 urgent care centers, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. A legacy of innovation lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer “It monitors patients when they are most “Ultimately, we are redesigning Lenox Hill into and 142 ambulatory and physician practices, community community at large. at risk.” a facility that can adapt and grow over the including more than 80 in Manhattan alone. next 100 years, as a place the community can “Lenox Hill is a very unique and special The estimates that it provides The nation’s first angioplasty treatments In 1857, community leaders recognized the need for it serves continue to look upon with pride,” he added. place. It always has provided world-class more than $1 billion in community benefits were pioneered at Lenox Hill. It also was care with a personal touch. That’s always annually, including $248 million in uncom- the site of the city’s first coronary stent The redesign is meant to help Lenox Hill medical services for German immigrants and found- been Lenox Hill’s culture,” said Dr. Varinder pensated care. procedure, and one of the first hospitals better meet community needs that go Singh, the hospital’s chair of cardiology, who in the country to acquire a state-of-art As it embarks on an extensive beyond providing advanced medical ser- Northwell Health’s strategy of creating an ed the German Dispensary in lower Manhattan. By is responsible for the quality and delivery of robotic cardiac system for minimally vices. It currently hosts support groups that integrated health system prompted it to process to rebuild anew, Lenox cardiovascular care at the hospital. “People in invasive heart bypass surgery. In 2003, the counsel patients and family members who build “a massive ambulatory network with 1868, the facility was relocated to the neighborhood the community consider it their hospital. We first FDA-approved, drug-coated stent was Hill Hospital is being guided by are dealing with serious health conditions. over 700 locations,” said Dowling, as well as A new chapter in Lenox Hill’s history are an asset to the community that provides implanted by the hospital’s cardiac cathe- It regularly hosts events such as health making a “major commitment to the under- of Park Avenue and East 77th Street. Historic records began in 2010 when the hospital joined old principles. The Manhattan cutting-edge care in a very personalized terization team. fairs, conferences, community board meet- served and to behavioral health.” Northwell Health, a system comprised of compassionate manner.” note how, in 1890, a horse-drawn ambulance was institution takes its role as a com- ings and community resource fairs. The Today, Lenox Hill has retained its status in 23 hospitals and more than 700 outpatient Lenox Hill’s rebuilding is the latest example rebuilt Lenox Hill is designed to expand Lenox Hill representatives will regularly the forefront of heart, lung and vascular facilities. That same year, Lenox Hill made munity resource seriously, and is of that commitment to comprehensive and kept at the ready in a livery stable on East 77th Street. this work with a focus on creating shared, engage with all interested members of the care. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons a commitment to address the health integrated care, he added. committed to open, transparent community spaces. community throughout New York City’s ap- recognized its programs in a comprehensive care void created in Greenwich Village By 1918, the German Hospital was renamed Lenox proval process. It has designated one of its Strugatz will provide updates on quality rating system; in a recent analysis of after the closure of St. Vincent’s Hospital. communication throughout the The hospital is sensitive to community needs. executives, Joshua Strugatz, vice president construction and other announcements national data, its Lenox Heart & Lung division Four years later, Lenox Health Greenwich One example is Victory Greens, the city’s Hill Hospital. planning process. of Manhattan Redevelopment, to serve as through a new, dedicated website, was noted among the top hospitals for Village’s Phyllis and William Mack Pavilion first hospital-based, organic rooftop garden. the hospital’s liaison. Strugatz is responsible www.RenewingLenox.org. coronary artery bypass opened as a medical Through a unique partnership with Harlem for fielding questions from the community, HISTORIANS HAVE considered how differ- “I do not wish to be hurt anymore. Give surgery and aortic valve complex anchored by NORTHWELL HEALTH, which operates Lenox Grown, a nonprofit that teaches New York Lenox Hill also announced that the and from public and elected officials. ent the world would have been if events of me some chloroform or something.” surgery. Lenox Hill also a 24-hour, full-service Hill, said it undertook a rigorous, multi-year City children about healthy lifestyles through community can direct inquiries to an email A history of innovation emergency center that the night of December 13, 1931 had a fatal “The anesthetist is already on the way.” achieved some of the strategic planning effort to establish the urban farming, the hospital opens its rooftop Rebuilding Lenox Hill is part of Northwell address, [email protected], ending. Crossing on his way state’s best survival rates operates as a division appropriate design for the proposed hos- garden to the children, and sends its doctors Health’s broader strategy of providing com- or can call 212-434-4360. On the hospital’s 100th anniversary, in that stretches back more to visit his friend Bernard Baruch, Winston for percutaneous coro- of Lenox Hill Hospital. pital. Relying on analytics as well as clinical 1957, he wrote, “I well remember the ad- Churchill was run over by a car. According nary intervention (PCI), than 160 years will one This new model of input from a team of surgeons, doctors and mirable care and attention I received.” to “My New York Misadventure,” Churchill’s coronary artery bypass, community- NORTHWELL HEALTH FACILITIES day mark the opening nurses, the redesign planning was tasked with firsthand account of By 1933, Lenox Hill had value surgery, and tran- based care was later forecasting the needs of the hospital and the Hospitals Manhattan Lenox Hill Hospital the accident, he was developed a reputation scatheter aortic valve expanded to include community for decades into the future. of a modern Lenox Hill Long Island Jewish Medical Center driven to Lenox Hill for medical innovation. replacement (TAVR) for imaging and ambula- “Lenox Hill is a very important community Hospital as blood It established a mater- all discharged cases, Hospital, built for the tory surgery centers, a Cohen Children’s Medical Center asset, and we want to be very open and dripped from a serious nity service, opened according to the most future of medicine medical pavilion that a cancer clinic, and recent data collected houses orthopedic sur- responsive to the community,” said Michael head wound. Forest Hills made final preparations by the New York State geons, physical medi- Dowling, president and chief executive of “Soon I am on a bed. for the debut of its Department of Health. cine and rehabilitation, Northwell Health. Staten Island University Hospital North Presently come keen, heart clinic. In 1907, the pain management and urology practices, Staten Island University Hospital South Its historic innovation in cardiology aside, The resulting project design upgrades services comprehending eyes institution created the and a community conference center. the hospital is best known for excellence and infrastructure, with all single-bedded Brooklyn Maimonides Medical Center—strategic affiliate and deft, firm fingers.” country’s first physical in neurology, , orthopedics, In March 2019, Northwell Health an- patient rooms, an expanded emergency de- Specialty Manhattan Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital (MEETH) “We shall have to therapy department, , otolaryngology/head and nounced a project to completely rebuild partment, new surgical suites and enhanced dress that scalp at and a year later opened Lenox Health Greenwich Village neck surgery, maternal/child health, and the hospital, at an estimated cost of $2.5 clinical spaces. To help offset some of the once. It is cut to the New York City’s first Freestanding Emergency Department internal medicine. In 2018, nearly 3,900 billion. A history of innovation that stretch- construction costs, the project incorporates a bone.” tuberculosis division. Additional 17 Urgent Care Centers New Yorkers were born within Lenox Hill’s es back more than 160 years will one day residential building at East 76th Street and Park “Will it hurt?” leaving Cardiac care is where walls, and the hospital treated more than mark the opening of a modern Lenox Hill Avenue in which housing units will be sold to 142 Ambulatory and Physician Practices Partner/Affiliate Hospitals the hospital “Yes.” Lenox Hill has long 163,000 patients. Hospital, built for the future of medicine. partially finance the hospital’s revitalization. 40 Ambulances and Emergency Response Units Affiliate Hospitals (labs)

1857 1887 1907 1908 1938 1955 1957 1967 1978 1989 1991 2003 2009 2017 Community leaders Four young German- First First tuberculosis First angiocardiography One of the first hospitals One of the first intensive First cardiac care unit First angioplasty First Lyme Disease First coronary stent in First FDA approved drug First totally endoscopic First hybrid operating recognized the need for American women form a department in the U.S division in New York City in the country performed in the city to open a care units in New York in the New York procedure in the U.S. Center in New York City New York City coated stent implanted robotic coronary artery room on the east coast medical services for the Nurses’ Training School City metropolitan area bypass on a beating with an advanced immigrant community class laboratory heart robotic system and together found the German Dispensary TIMELINE

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