This was a significant week for us. On Monday, we submitted the application to build the new MSBI hospital to New York City and State. This also included an application for our new Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center. These two projects together with the investments we are making in our downtown ambulatory network add up to about 1 billion dollars. What an incredible investment in our downtown communities.
It’s been a long road from 2016 when we announced our plan to transform Downtown and build the new hospital next to New York Eye and Ear. Trying to plan how healthcare will change so far ahead of us is challenging, and we must get it right. We are growing our ambulatory platform and leveraging the expertise and depth of the entire system to serve our community better. It’s not an easy task. I’m incredibly thankful to our team for their hard work and to all of you for your patience and agility while we figure out what is best for our patients.
See our new renderings below. More renderings and more information can be seen here.
Entrance on 14th Street and 2nd Avenue
Northeast View on Second Ave
Mount Sinai Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center
Pending approvals, we anticipate breaking ground in 2020 and opening the new behavioral health center in 2022 and the new hospital in 2023.
We have a lot of work to do before then. For example, in 2020 we will go live on EPIC at the current MSBI. Likewise, we will continue to work together to improve our processes of care, to better understand and meet the needs of our patients, and to continue to learn how to better care for each other each and every day. I can’t wait to see what we can accomplish together.