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"We're building the emergency room of the futurity," says Steven Safyer, MD, President and CEO, Montefiore.

The first shovels have been put in the ground for Nyack Infirmary's $22 million infrastructure projection.

The largest upgrade in the medical facility'due south 121-year history was kicked off last month with a ceremonial groundbreaking. The project will redesign and double the size of the existing emergency section likewise as create what is being called an outpatient "medical village" that will offer an culling to traditional hospitalization.

The infrastructure project is the hospital'south showtime major upper-case letter project since joining the Montefiore Health System in 2014.

Steven Safyer, president and chief executive officer of Montefiore Medicine, chosen the existing emergency room "outdated."

"We're edifice the emergency room of the future, where it's continued to subspecialty cares, connected to all kinds of services, including mental health, that can potentially proceed you out of the hospital," Safyer said at the groundbreaking.

The hospital will construct a two-story addition and add together 16,300 square anxiety of space, as well as renovate and reconfigure existing infinite that now includes the emergency department, hospital lobby, and nearby corridors.

The hospital's emergency department — which is among the busiest in the Lower Hudson Valley at well-nigh 60,000 annual visits — will double in size to 26,000 square feet on the ground flooring. The current ER was built to manage about thirty,000 visits a year.

The larger emergency room will also have a separate urgent care facility, larger trauma bays, an imaging suite, and rapid assessment surface area.

The seven,800-square-foot medical hamlet, which will offer outpatient services, will include chief and specialty care providers too as community-based support services and non-emergency transportation assistance.

The project does non include any additional parking. Hospital officials previously said the expansion would not profoundly increase its number of visitors, although nearby residents accept raised concerns over potential increases to traffic and parking.

More than than 100 people watched as almost 10 hospital and Montefiore officials, too equally local politicians, donned structure helmets for the ceremony Monday within a tent in the hospital'southward parking lot off of Due north Midland Avenue.

The country contributed about $17.7 million to fund the projection, and the balance was contributed past infirmary fundraising.

Construction will begin this calendar month, and the project is expected to be completed in 2018.

Richard Kohlhausen, chairman of the Nyack Hospital lath of trustees, said the project was expected to aggrandize patient care but besides decrease the number of overall visits to the ER.

The medical hamlet, Kohlhausen said, will bring together service providers and customs groups so that patients "don't necessarily demand to come for medical treatment merely to go elementary things" such as psychological and food assistance.

The projection also will create a clearer, more defined archway to the hospital, Kohlhausen said. The current entrance — a single door facing Northward Midland Avenue — is difficult for some patients to locate, he said.

Among the local politicians in attendance Monday were Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann, Clarkstown Councilman Frank Borelli, state Sen. David Carlucci, D-New City, and Rockland Legislature Chairman Alden Wolfe, D-Montebello, and Nyack Mayor Jen Laird-White, who called the upgrades to the hospital "revolutionary."

"As a mayor, having a really amazing emergency room is one of the most important things you can have for your community," she said. "As a mother with a family of five kids, it'south fifty-fifty more important."

Reprinted from The Journal News, December 6, 2016