Certificate of Need Applications Approved in September 2008

Northeastern Region

ALBANY

072183 St. Margaret's Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/2/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $6,650,390
  • Construct 34 net new beds consisting of 18 residential health care facility pediatric specialty beds, 16 pediatric ventilator dependent beds and certify a scheduled short term care II service

Northeastern Region

ALBANY

082002 Teresian House Nursing Home Company, Inc.

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/9/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $3,501,450
  • Replace HVAC units

Northeastern Region

COLUMBIA

072098 Columbia Greene Dialysis Centers

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/8/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,250
  • Certify 6 dialysis stations at Sherman Potts Road, Ghent and relocate 14 dialysis stations to the same address from 30 Wittier Way, Ghent.(Supercedes 052107)

Northeastern Region

MONTGOMERY

081147 Albany Dialysis Center - Amsterdam Dialysis Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/19/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,000,299
  • Relocate Amsterdam Dialysis Center extension site from 1810 Riverfront Center, Amsterdam to One Northern Boulevard, Amsterdam; under renovation at the new site

Central Region

OTSEGO

081050 At Home Care, Inc.

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/2/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $0
  • Expand certified home health agency services to include Chenango County

Western Region

CATTARAUGUS

081157 Olean General Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/2/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $6,010,169
  • Certify a freestanding radiation oncology extension clinic by conversion of a private practice of medicine, certify a LINAC and CT services located at 1415 Buffalo Road, Olean (Amends and Supercedes Project No. 072054-C)

Western Region

ERIE

062407 Mercy Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/3/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $32,624,751
  • Construct a new emergency department

Western Region

NIAGARA

081058 Lockport Memorial Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/2/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $614,439
  • Certify and construct a MRI service

Finger Lakes Region

MONROE

072028 Strong Memorial Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/3/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,951,250
  • Certify and construct a fifth linear accelerator

Finger Lakes Region

STEUBEN

081067 St. James Mercy Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/26/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,250
  • Certify a primary care extension clinic located at 430 Canisteo Street, Hornell

Central Region

BROOME

081073 QC-Medi New York, Inc., d/b/a Gentiva Health Services

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/2/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $0
  • Expand certified home health agency service area to include Chenango County

Central Region

HERKIMER

071097 Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/3/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $491,667
  • Construct a 12 station chronic renal dialysis extension clinic in leased space of Little Falls Hospital located at 140 Burwell Street, Little Falls

Central Region

LEWIS

081029 Lewis County General Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/3/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,044,750
  • Covert a mobile MRI into a fixed based MRI

Hudson Valley Region

DUTCHESS

081082 Vassar Brothers Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/3/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,250
  • Certify a third CT scanner

Nassau-Suffolk Region

NASSAU

081027 Nassau University Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/9/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,020,250
  • Construct 25 dialysis stations, relocate 14 existing stations and 11 approved not yet operational stations and acute renal dialysis service from NUMC to A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility, 875 Jerusalem Avenue, Uniondale

Hudson Valley Region

ORANGE

081041 Bon Secours Community Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/23/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,434,886
  • Certify a muilti-specialty extension clinic located at 159 East Main Street, Port Jervis

Hudson Valley Region

ORANGE

071136 Orange Regional Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/2/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $3,462,325
  • Construct a second shared cardiac catheterization/EPS laboratory at the Middletown campus located at 60 Prospect Avenue, Middletown

Nassau-Suffolk Region

SUFFOLK

081038 Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/3/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $194,865
  • Certify and construct a medical rehabilitation extension clinic at 100 Hospital Road, Suite 121, Patchogue

Nassau-Suffolk Region

SUFFOLK

061146 Saint Charles Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/22/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $6,618,200
  • Construct three (3) operating rooms and one (1) procedure room (amends and supercedes 972612)

Nassau-Suffolk Region

SUFFOLK

071020 Suffolk County Department of Health Clinic Services

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/24/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,250
  • Relocate a methadone maintenance treatment program from 1330 Motor Parkway, Islandia to 200 Wireless Boulevard, Hauppauge

Hudson Valley Region

WESTCHESTER

072201 White Plains Hospital Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/2/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $81,588,631
  • Undertake major modernization, decertify four (4) medical/surgical beds, certify two (2) intensive care unit beds and two (2) critical care unit beds; construct four (4) new operating room suites

New York City Region

BRONX

081032 Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/2/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $11,627,534
  • Construct a parking garage (Amends and Supercedes Project No. 001134)

New York City Region

KINGS

081040 Lutheran Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/2/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $0
  • Request for joint certification of the hospital's adult diagnostic cardiac catheterization laboratory with Mount Sinai Hospital; a CON application from Mount Sinai Hospital will be processed concurrently

New York City Region

KINGS

081031 New York Methodist Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/15/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $224,657
  • Certify a hospital primary medical care extension clinic at 1 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn to provide hyperbaric wound care services

New York City Region

KINGS

082010 University Hospital of Brooklyn

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/11/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,250
  • Certify a hospital multi-specialty ambulatory surgery center extension site through assumption of Victory Memorial Hospital's existing center at 699 92nd Street, Brooklyn

New York City Region

NEW YORK

062403 Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/2/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $187,706,138
  • Construct a 384 bed replacement RHCF with 2 respite beds, resulting in a net bed reduction of 128 residential health care facility beds; Revised: 3/17/08 - Construct a 408 bed replacement RHCF resulting in a 106 bed reduction

New York City Region

NEW YORK

081012 Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/3/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $6,885,924
  • Replace high energy LINAC with the latest LINAC technology and undertake renovations

New York City Region

NEW YORK

081039 Mount Sinai Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/2/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $0
  • Request for joint certification of Lutheran Medical Center's adult diagnostic cardiac catheterization laboratory; a CON application from Lutheran Medical Center will be processed concurrently

New York City Region

NEW YORK

081030 Mount Sinai Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/3/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $5,251,250
  • Construct a dedicated 14 palliative care unit using 14 existing medical/surgical beds

New York City Region

NEW YORK

072149 NYU Hospitals Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/2/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $4,700,386
  • Certify and construct a six (6) bed bone marrow transplant unit utilizing existing beds; there will be no change to the hospital's certified capacity

New York City Region

NEW YORK

072138 Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/3/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,428,548
  • Certify and construct 11 additional dialysis stations

New York City Region

QUEENS

081033 Long Island Jewish Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/9/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $6,944,964
  • Install southern campus site utilities

New York City Region

QUEENS

072026 West Lawrence Care Center, LLC

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 9/23/2008
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $0
  • Change in establishment by adding one (1) new member (25.10%) and decreasing one (1) member's interest by 25.10% from 36.85 % to 11.75%; Revised: July 7, 2008 - Change in membership composition