Hospital submits expansion plan
City planners may review $112 million Mary’s Avenue Campus proposal Oct. 17
HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley has submitted formal plans to the city’s Planning Office to expand its Mary’s Avenue campus.
The application could be considered at the Oct. 17 meeting of the Planning Board at City Hall.
“HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, submitted all appropriate, required documents to the city of Kingston Planning Department,” Lynn Nicholas, HealthAlliance’s marketing director, said in an email.
Kingston Mayor Steve Noble said the submission indicates the announced expansion is moving forward.
“The Planning Office did receive the official submission for the Health Alliance’s expansion plans (Wednesday), which officially begins the planning review process,” Noble said in an email. “Leadership of the Health Alliance and (Westchester Medical Center) Health have clearly demonstrated their strong desire to move forward with this project and I look forward to seeing this process proceed.”
According to the city’s Planning Office, HealthAlliance paid an $18,100 filing fee.
Earlier this month, HealthAlliance announced plans to consolidate its two hospitals and expand the scope and size of its Mary’s Avenue campus to include a 110,000-square-foot expansion, featuring a new four-story tower.
The five-year plan includes creating the additional space at the Mary’s Avenue Campus, which
will feature a new emergency center, two medicalsurgical floors, a new intensive care unit and a new endoscopy center. Of the 201 beds at the hospital, 141 would be private.
The plans also include
turning HealthAlliance’s Broadway campus (the former Kingston Hospital) into a medical office village.
The plans for the medical village are not mentioned in a narrative submitted to the city’s Planning Office.
Gerry Harrington, a HealthAlliance spokesman, said Thursday the company is focused on the Mary’s Avenue project at this point.
Once the approval process is completed, the company will submit the medical village plan.
HealthAlliance President and Chief Executive Officer David Scarpino has said the $133.6 million investment would create a healthier community, improve the quality of services delivered to patients and be an “economic driver” for the region.
He said approximately $112 million of the funding would be used for the work at the Mary’s Avenue Campus, with the balance of $21.6 million devoted to the medical village on the Broadway Campus.
Westchester Medical Center Health Network, which has its flagship hospital in Valhalla, N.Y., became
the parent company of HealthAlliance in late March.
That was just a few weeks after HealthAlliance was granted $88.8 million by the state to consolidate hospital services at its two Kingston campuses into the Mary’s Avenue site and turn the Broadway Campus into a medical village, comprising various outpatient
medical services and educational venues.
Scarpino said the additional funding to pay for the expanded project would come from Westchester Medical Center Health Network, HealthAlliance and a capital fundraising campaign. He said $2 million of that has already been provided by the Benedictine Health Foundation.