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Nassau University Medical Center A. Holly Patterson Extended Care NuHealth Family Health Centers

Four-Year $240 Million Modernization Program


The program includes significant investments in real estate consolidation, facility improvements, clinical equipment and information technology at NUMC, the replacement of our nursing home and enhancements to the Community Health Centers, all to benefit patient care and safety. This provides a window of opportunity in the next four years for our public institution, serving the indigent and uninsured to reorganize, consolidate, maximize our real estate and through information technology, efficiently reconfigure our operations. This Modernization Program will be funded from the Nassau Health Care Corporation's operations 2004 refunding, New York State Department of Health reimbursable project and requests to be made to Nassau County for tobacco settlement proceeds.


The Five Principal Objectives of the $240 Million Modernization Program


1. Consolidate real estate on the East Meadow Campus
  • Pour three unpoured floors in NUMC's main tower
  • Reconstruct the parking garage
  • Develop a comprehensive Master Plan for the East Meadow campus


    • 2. Make significant improvements to the NUMC main tower and certain campus buildings
  • Reconstruction of the Emergency Department
  • Renovation of the 8th floor as an outpatient psychiatric center
  • Creation of labor and delivery recovery area
  • Completion of new Burn Center
  • Sealing of courtyard
  • Renovation of Intensive Care Unit and operating room
  • Construction of the new psychiatric units
  • Renovation of Radiology Department
  • Construction of new center for Ophthalmology services
  • Renovation of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department
  • Renovation of Radiation Oncology division

    3. Purchase Critical Medical Equipment and Information Technology
  • Replacement of two CT scanners
  • Possible upgrade of cardiac catherization laboratory
  • Scanning of medical records
  • Full implementation of Eclipsys
  • Expansion of PACS (Pictorial Archiving Communication Systems)
  • Introduction of physician charge capture software

    • 4. Improve Community Health Centers
  • $5 million investment in capital improvements
  • 2008 opening of the new Freeport Community Health Center by Memorial Economic Development Corporation
  • New Hempstead Community Health Center

    • 5. Construction of new A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility
  • Replace current nursing home with smaller, state-of-the-art nursing home costing $100 million


    • As a result of these significant investments, there is a fundamental opportunity to reconfigure the Nassau Healthcare Corporation's operations with emphasis on achievable improvements in the quality of care provided to its patients.