Specialty healthcare institutions very active in the expansion in the region

Specialty healthcare institutions very active in the expansion in the region

Healthcare is big business around the nation and especially within the region. Major medical centers as well as specialty institutions are expanding their footprint in New York and the region, especially the Hospital for Special Surgery and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is nearly competition of its 50,000 sq. ft. outpatient facility in White Plains, New York, with targeted date of competition in the fall. The Manhattan based orthopedic hospital signed a lease in 2016 with Westchester based RPW Group, at 1133 Westchester Avenue, in an office building that once served as offices for IBM. In July, HSS, subleased four full floors, for a total of 98,600 sq. ft. at 777 Third Avenue. They will move some of its non-medical administrative and general business offices into the building which serves as the headquarters of Avon.

Earlier this year, HSS signed a lease for four floor at Durst Organization FRANK 57 West, mixed-use development on the Far West Side, for a new outpatient facility. The hospital will occupy 65,000 sq. ft., officially at 600 West 58th Street between 11th and 12th Avenue. In July, 2015, HSS, signed a thirty year lease for approximately 51,000 sq. ft. at 1233 Second Avenue for both medical and administrative office. The building located between East 64th Street and East 65th Street, is spread between lower level, ground, second and third floors of the 14 story, mixed use building.

In February, Stamford Health and Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) formally announced a collaboration to create the premier center for advanced orthopedic care serving Connecticut and New England.

HSS Orthopedics at Stanford Health will provide a level of inpatient and ambulatory care. Under the collaboration,

HSS Orthopedics at Stamford Health will be available on a dedicated fifth floor of the acclaimed new Stamford Hospital building late this year, and currently at Tully Health Center.

HSS has provided pre-, post- and non-surgical care in Connecticut since 2001. The 20,000 square foot HSS Outpatient Center at Chelsea Piers Connecticut in Stamford will continue to provide those services, as will the neighboring HSS-Stamford Health Sports Rehab facility.

Major construction projects are taking place at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Construction is now underway on the 22 story, 750,000 sq. ft. David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care facility at 530 East 74th Street, located at the corner of the FDR Drive at 530 East 74th Street. The Koch Center will share 1,150,000 gross sq. ft. location with The City University of New York/Hunter College's Science and Health Professions Building. Construction began in May 2015 and expected to be completed in 2019.

Later this year, the new state of the art Laboratory Medicine Building, located at 327 East 64th Street is expected to open.

Much like MSK's other regional centers in New Jersey, New York State and Long Island, MSK is in the process of building MSK Nassau which will offer a variety of oncology services and treatments. The 140,000 sq. ft. medical building at the Nassau Coliseum off Hempstead Turnpike in Union is located at the southwest portion of the Coliseum. The property includes a 452 space, 134,000 sq. ft. parking garage.

MSK first opened its doors to Nassau County residents in 1996 at its Rockville Center site, which now shares the Mercy Medical Center property. Once the new site is ready for outpatient cancer care, the Rockville Center location will close and transfer its patients, staff to the new Uniondale site.

Late last year MSK and Hackensack Meridian Heath, announced the Memorial Sloan Kettering-Hackensack Health partnership. During an event at the site of the forthcoming Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, leaders from Memorial Sloan Kettering and Hackensack Meridian Health announced the ten-year strategic partnership. Driving the collaboration is a shared commitment to the highest-quality cancer care and improving outcomes and value, which will allow the two organizations to reduce the burden that cancer places on patients and families.

Each organization's existing sites of care in New Jersey - including Hackensack Meridian Health's cancer care locations, the John Theurer Cancer Center at HackensackUMC in Hackensack, and Memorial Sloan Kettering's locations in Basking Ridge, Middletown, and Montvale (opening in 2018) - will be part of the Memorial Sloan Kettering-Hackensack Meridian Health partnership, but each organization will independently own, operate, and manage these existing sites.

The initial stages of the Memorial Sloan Kettering-Hackensack Meridian Health partnership will involve developing joint standards of care to be applied across these existing sites to optimize clinical outcomes for every patient, as well as setting clinical research priorities. Eventually, the two organizations will create a formal joint venture to own and operate new ambulatory care centers in areas of New Jersey they do not yet serve.

The Memorial Sloan Kettering-Hackensack Meridian Health partnership creates instant convenience. All Memorial Sloan Kettering locations in New Jersey (in Basking Ridge, Middletown, and Montvale, which will open in 2018) and Hackensack Meridian Health locations that offer cancer care (HackensackUMC in Hackensack, Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, Ocean Medical Center in Brick, Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, HackensackUMC Mountainside in Montclair, HackensackUMC Palisades in North Bergen, Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy, Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin, Bayshore Community Hospital in Holmdel, Raritan Bay Medical Center in Old Bridge, HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley in Westwood, and Meridian Health Village at Jackson) will participate in the partnership. Physicians employed by Memorial Sloan Kettering and Hackensack Meridian Health - including the Hackensack Division of Regional Cancer Care Associates and physicians who participate in Hackensack Meridian Health's clinically integrated network - will continue to care for patients at their respective sites.