9.26.23 - Westchester Medical Center’s $221M tower would convert all patient rooms to private
' A new patient care tower planned on the campus of Westchester Medical Center would convert all patient rooms in the hospital to private rooms.
The $221.3 million project includes a five-story, 128-bed building totaling 162,626 square feet that will serve patients who need trauma, neurosciences, cardiology and general surgery. Construction is expected to begin at the end of this year.
It would bring 770 construction jobs and 127 full-time jobs and generate about $3.5 million in sales tax revenues over 30 years, according to a news release.
Joshua Ratner, executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Westchester Medical Center Health Network, said the critical care tower serves not only the Westchester County, but also the Hudson Valley region.
“The critical care tower is by all accounts a unique project for the Hudson Valley,” he said. “It’s the only project of its kind that is capable of handling the critical patients as well as general medical surgical patients.” '