An architectural image features the modern design planned for the Phillips Ambulatory Care Center at Mount Sinai Beth Israel.
A transformation is under way at the seven hospital campuses that comprise the Mount Sinai Health System, with various projects that streamline and modernize facilities, and strengthen their ability to better serve patients.
Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mount Sinai Health System, has called this “a landmark time for our hospitals.” The changes, he says, will increase efficiency and enable Mount Sinai to “stand out as a health care hub,” locally and globally.
Here is an inside look at the changes taking place and future plans at each hospital campus:
Mount Sinai Queens
In 2016, Mount Sinai Queens will open a six-story, 130,000-square-foot building adjacent to the main hospital that will house an expanded, state-of-the-art Emergency Department and a new Ambulatory Care Pavilion with operating suites, advanced imaging and laboratory services, and an outpatient physician medical practice. The new building will provide patients with comprehensive multidisciplinary care in one location. Other improvements will include a new two-story entrance to the existing hospital, the renovation and expansion of the hospital lobby, a new community education center and café, five new elevator banks, and an updated hospital façade that creates and unifies the look of the campus.
Construction is continuing on the new Emergency Department and Ambulatory Care Pavilion at Mount Sinai Queens.
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
At the Phillips Ambulatory Care Center (PACC) at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, construction will begin in November on an updated façade that advertises Mount Sinai Doctors at the facility, and an expanded and modernized lobby featuring a contemporary glass stairway that provides direct access to the second floor. At the Comprehensive Cancer Center West, design is under way for an enhanced Women’s Health Center and improved radiology services to provide patients with a complete range of oncology services.
Mount Sinai St. Luke’s
In September, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s began construction on a number of projects that are part of a master plan to expand and enhance cardiac services, consolidate behavioral health and addiction inpatient and outpatient services, create a Diabetes Center for Excellence, and establish an on-campus Mount Sinai Doctors medical mall to provide patients with comprehensive medical care in one location. An expanded and modernized Emergency Department will include space allocated for an on-campus Urgent Care Center. The sale of the Plant, Scrymser, Minturn, and Travers buildings that house the Spencer Cox Clinic, Child & Family Services, Neurology, ED Offices, Crisis Management, and additional administrative offices, will provide funding for the construction. These services are being moved to other on-campus locations.
Mount Sinai Roosevelt
Mount Sinai Roosevelt will create an Orthopaedics Center of Excellence to provide high-quality care to patients with muscle, bone, and joint conditions. Plans call for upgrades to the operating rooms, the purchase of additional labor and delivery beds and a new MRI machine, and for construction of a new Central Sterile Processing Department and Surgical Innovations Laboratory. The construction will be funded with proceeds from the sale of the former Antenucci research building. Research programs once housed in that building have been relocated to the Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, Mount Sinai Roosevelt, and Mount Sinai Hospital campuses.
An artist’s rendering of the new façade and lobby under construction at Mount Sinai Queens
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
In 2015, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai completed several major construction and renovation projects, including the reopening of the Pediatric Surgical Unit, the installation and opening of the Laser Vision Correction Center in the hospital’s Bank Building, and a modernization project for the hospital’s cafeteria. In 2016, the hospital will continue modernizing its North and South buildings and upgrading all buildings to ensure they are handicapped accessible.
Mount Sinai Brooklyn
Enhancements are being made to the main lobby and include improvements to the handicapped-accessible entrance. Food services are being upgraded. Plans also call for the creation of a new Urgent Care Center, a new Cancer Infusion Suite, and the purchase of a CT scanner. Renovation efforts will include pharmacy and laboratory upgrades.
The Mount Sinai Hospital
In the near future, plans call for expanding critical care and intermediate care facilities at Mount Sinai Heart; improving the oncology protective isolation area; and adding a new pediatric cardiac operating room. Upgrades to the inpatient dialysis unit, along with enhancements to other inpatient and outpatient areas, are expected to improve the patient experience.