Plans to modernize Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital are crucial to preserving the city\u2019s global leadership in medicine; the City Council should OK the proposal ASAP.<\/p>\n
As the City Planning Commission voted its approval of the $2 billion project last month, Chairman Dan Garodnick flagged the vital imperative \u201cto ensure the city\u2019s health-care infrastructure is able to meet evolving needs, provide excellent care and remain competitive to attract and retain talent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Expanding this Upper East Side hospital forwards all those goods. <\/p>\n
Indeed, with an eye on meeting 21st-century standards of care, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine got Northwell to include a new outpatient-mental-health facility designed to serve up to 30,000 patient visits a year.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s \u201ca really important step forward,\u201d Levine cheered of the commitment.<\/p>\n
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The proposed 436-foot tower on Lexington Avenue between 76th and 77th streets will include 475 single-bed rooms, 30 new operating rooms and an expanded emergency department.<\/p>\n
The hospital campus saw its last upgrade more than half a century ago \u2014 so its operating rooms are undersized and poorly configured for tomorrow\u2019s technology and modern medical practices.<\/p>\n
Of course, some locals are complaining about the project\u2019s scale, nine-year timeline and \u201cimpact\u201d on the neighborhood \u2014 one that Lenox Hill has been a part of for 160 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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In deference to community concerns, Northwell scotched its initial plans for a 500-foot-tall medical center with an adjacent residential building, and will also reduce congestion via new off-street ambulance bays on E. 77th Street and finance improved pedestrian access to the 77th Street subway station.<\/p>\n
And any pains for the neighborhood must be balanced against the benefits of a $2 billion private investment by a proven health-care provider \u2014 when the city\u2019s been losing hospitals by the dozens in recent decades.<\/p>\n
The neighborhood and the whole city will gain here \u2014 and nixing the plan is all too likely to discourage any moves to modernize other local hospitals. <\/p>\n
To remain a world-class town, New York City must support world-class health-care institutions. Approving Northwell\u2019s rezoning application will show that the City Council truly cares about the Big Apple\u2019s future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans to modernize Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital are crucial to preserving the city\u2019s global leadership in medicine; the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5310,4691,72917,5249,405,403,5226,5225,12236,5228,5227,1269,24583,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-116510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-editorial","11":"tag-lenox-hill-hospital","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-northwell-health","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-opinion","21":"tag-rezoning","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114966850821432552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}