NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

The Allen Hospital Expansion - The Daniel and Jane Och Spine Hospital

Location: New York, NY
Size: 40,000 square feet
Project: Expansion

New York-Presbyterian Hospital expanded its neurosurgery and orthopedics programs to support a large specialty spine surgery and rehab group they recruited from out of state. The Hospital decided to provide the support and infrastructure that this group required and to repurpose one of the local general hospitals in Manhattan to support this major program in addition to the general hospital functions that remained within the building.

The program required an overall upgrade to the Diagnostic and Surgical infrastructure and support including supply chain and logistics assets and the expansion of the surgical suite, the development of an outpatient ambulatory surgery program and the general reinforcement of the existing general hospital programs, including labor and delivery, the Emergency Department, General Surgery and other medical specialties focused on serving the immediate community and its needs.

The spine program support and infrastructure was created in part by adding a 20,000 square-feet to the building to support inpatient and ambulatory surgery, the Radiology Department additional requirements, and the renovation of other portions of the hospital to provide additional major operating rooms suitable for spine surgery and the space and infrastructure necessary to support the large volume of instrument processing, storage and inventory of supplies and surgical specialties for spine surgery. The surgical platform was modernized to include image guidance systems and image integrated information systems to support the complex surgical procedures performed there.

JEFFREY BERMAN ARCHITECTS was the Architect for the Hospital through the multiple phases of the expansion and upgrade to support the program initially on a fast track program to jumpstart the program and then continuing on multi-year expansion projects to support the growing program and meet the needs of the advancing specialty.