Certificate of Need Applications Approved in December 2009

Northeastern Region

ALBANY

091072 Our Lady of Hope Residence – Little Sisters of the Poor

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/11/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,250.00
  • Certify a 30 slot adult day health care program capacity

Northeastern Region

ALBANY

081045 University Dialysis Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/27/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $618,845.00
  • Certify and construct a 24 station dialysis center extension clinic located at 186 Washington Avenue Extension, Albany

Northeastern Region

DELAWARE

091064 Countryside Care Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/22/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,155,450.00
  • Certify a 35 slot adult day health care program at 41861 State Highway 10, Delhi

Northeastern Region

MONTGOMERY

091099 St. Mary's Hospital at Amsterdam

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/27/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,250.00
  • Certify a primary medical care extension clinic at 425 Guy Park Avenue, Amsterdam

Northeastern Region

RENSSELAER

092114 Samaritan Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/8/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $6,235,378.00
  • Renovate and upgrade the maternity unit located on the second floor of the hospital in preparation for The Burdett Care Center Project No. 091172; HEAL 11 related

Northeastern Region

RENSSELAER

092052 Seton Health System - St. Mary's Campus

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/6/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $751,233.00
  • Renovate and expand existing emergency department to provide space for four (4) new treatment and exam rooms

Western Region

ERIE

092064 Erie County Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/29/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $4,289,547.00
  • Replace two (2) existing radiographic units and expand; orthopedic offices, physical therapy, x-ray area, all by eliminating the occupational therapy area

Western Region

ERIE

091126 Mercy Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/23/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $3,208,902.00
  • Relocate the Mercy Outpatient Clinic located at 515 Abbott Road to the Mercy Health Center located at 430 South Park Avenue, Buffalo - HEAL-NY Phase 6 - Revised: May 8, 2009 -certify diagnostic radiology clinical laboratory and podiatry services

Western Region

ERIE

082096 Mercy Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/27/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $48,698.00
  • Certify a multi–purpose extension clinic located at 27 Franklin Street, Springville

Western Region

ERIE

091149 Southtown Dialysis Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/1/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $3,117,838.00
  • Certify and construct a 25 station dialysis extension clinic located at 4950 Camp Road, Hamburg

Western Region

ERIE

092144 St. Catherine Laboure Health Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/21/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,000.00
  • Transfer 25-slot adult day health care program (ADHCP) from St. Francis of Buffalo to St. Catherine Laboure Health Care Center

Western Region

NIAGARA

091146 Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center, Inc.

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/18/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $112,312.00
  • Certify and construct an audiology and speech language and pathology services extension clinic at 6941 Elaine Drive, Suite #3, Niagara Falls

Finger Lakes Region

MONROE

092061 Highland Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/29/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,000.00
  • Certify a primary medical care extension clinic for the purpose of providing oncology infusion services at 1000 South Avenue, Rochester

Finger Lakes Region

MONROE

082161 The Unity Hospital of Rochester

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/27/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $118,279.00
  • Certify a primary medical care extension clinic through acquisition of Rochester Vascular Surgery Associates site at 3525 Buffalo Road, Rochester

Finger Lakes Region

ONTARIO

091013 Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/18/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $252,000.00
  • Convert mobile MRI used three days per week into a fixed full–time MRI

Finger Lakes Region

STEUBEN

082148 Arnot Ogden Medical Center – AMS Mammography Suite

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/17/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $471,625.00
  • Certify and construct a diagnostic radiology extension clinic at 8 Denison Parkway, Corning

Finger Lakes Region

WAYNE

091073 Wayne Health Center – DeMay Living Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/17/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $439,638.00
  • Relocate the adult day health care program capacity of 25 to a freestanding building on the campus, certify and construct 19 adult day health care program slots for a revised capacity of 44 slots

Central Region

CAYUGA

091124 Auburn Memorial Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/20/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,250.00
  • Certify a physical therapy extension clinic located at 77 Nelson Street, Suite 130, Auburn by relocation of existing on–site hospital physical therapy services

Central Region

JEFFERSON

091177 Hospice of Jefferson County, Inc.

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/22/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $3,730,664.00
  • Construct an eight bed hospice residence with two (2) dually certified beds for inpatient care located at 1398 Gotham Street, Watertown

Central Region

MADISON

082019 Oneida Healthcare Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/25/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $21,250.00
  • Certify and construct a diagnostic radiology extension clinic at 357 Genesee Street, Oneida; the applicant will purchase and operate the radiology equipment currently used by a medical practice

Central Region

MADISON

082083 Oneida Healthcare Center – Northside Health Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/17/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,250.00
  • Certify a prenatal care extension clinic at 1072 Northside Shopping Center, Oneida

Central Region

ONONDAGA

091130 St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/22/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $220,281,604.00
  • Modernize the ER, construct new tower and OR suite, certify two (2) new ICU beds, decert. two (2) ped. beds & certify a diag. ext. site at 104 Union St., Syracuse, Rev.: May 8, 2009 Delete diagnostic extension clinic from 104 Union Street, Syracuse

Central Region

ONONDAGA

091027 University Hospital SUNY Health Science Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/16/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $362,925.00
  • Certify a primary medical care and pediatric extension clinic located at 475 Irving Avenue, Syracuse

Central Region

ONONDAGA

091047 University Hospital SUNY Health Science Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/16/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $93,950.00
  • Relocate the physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic located at 550 Harrison Street, Syracuse to 6570 Fly Road, East Syracuse

Central Region

ONONDAGA

091108 University Hospital SUNY Health Science Center - Hill Medical

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/16/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $17,250.00
  • Certify and construct a primary medical care clinical laboratory service extension clinic to be located at 1000 East Genesee Street, Syracuse

Hudson Valley Region

DUTCHESS

091088 Dutchess Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/18/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,274,831.00
  • Certify and construct a 40 slot adult day health care program

Nassau-Suffolk Region

NASSAU

082180 Extraordinary Home Care

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/30/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $0.00
  • Establish a certified home health agency to serve a special need population of medically complex and fragile children

Nassau-Suffolk Region

NASSAU

091142 North Shore University Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/22/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $36,480,750.00
  • Implement an electronic medical records system

Nassau-Suffolk Region

NASSAU

091019 Winthrop University Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/18/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,624,095.00
  • Certify and construct a primary medical care extension clinic to provide sleep disorder services at 1300 Franklin Avenue, Garden City

Hudson Valley Region

ORANGE

092011 Orange Regional Medical Center – Goshen Campus

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/22/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,435,773.00
  • Construct a 10–bed level 2 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), decertify one (1) maternity bed for net increase for nine (9) beds

Hudson Valley Region

PUTNAM

072082 Atlanticare Management, LLC d/b/a Putnam Ridge

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/30/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $0.00
  • Establish Atlanticare Management, LLC as the new operator of Putnam Commons Residential Health Care Facility; Revised: January 9, 2009; Delete Joel Willinger and add new members Alan Lipschitz and Chaya Willinger

Hudson Valley Region

ROCKLAND

092099 Refuah Health Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/16/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $4,740,000.00
  • Relocate and expand clinical services at 728 North Main Street, Spring Valley; HEAL-NY Phase 6 awardee "Safety Net"

Nassau–Suffolk Region

SUFFOLK

091163 AstroCare, Inc.

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/23/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $238,914.00
  • Certify and construct a multi-purpose extension clinic located at 6 Old Dock Road – Suite 4, Yaphank

Nassau–Suffolk Region

SUFFOLK

082175 Bellhaven Management d/b/a Bellhaven Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/30/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $0.00
  • Establish Bellhaven Management, LLC as the new operator of Bellhaven Center for Geriatric and Rehabilitative Care; Revised: July 31, 2009 - Change in proposed members

Nassau-Suffolk Region

SUFFOLK

091091 Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/18/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,250.00
  • Certify 13 additional slots at the existing on–site adult day health care program (120 slots) in Commack

New York City Region

SUFFOLK

062291 Saint Catherine of Siena Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/22/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,011,034.00
  • Certify a second adult cardiac catheterization laboratory

Nassau–Suffolk Region

SUFFOLK

092033 University Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/16/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,851,781.00
  • Requests approval to acquire a 320 slice Ct scanner

Hudson Valley Region

ULSTER

082012 Kingston Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/8/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $4,200,769.00
  • Cert. 14 M/S bds, 9 ICU bds, 2 mat. bds; decert. 15 PM&R bd ser., 10 alc. rehab. bd ser. & 10 alc. detox. bed ser. HEAL 4

Hudson Valley Region

WESTCHESTER

091119 Westchester Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/22/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $6,457,502.00
  • Certify and construct nine (9) net new pediatric beds

Hudson Valley Region

WESTCHESTER

092027 Westchester Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/14/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,877,746.00
  • Renovate the emergency department and add 11 treatment stations; Amends and Supersedes Project No. 072122 Change in financing

Hudson Valley Region

WESTCHESTER

092028 Westchester Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/11/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $9,706,428.00
  • Renovate medical/surgical unit located on the 7th floor of the main hospital building – HEAL NY; Amends and Supersedes Project No. 072089 Change in financing

Hudson Valley Region

WESTCHESTER

092026 Westchester Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/14/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $5,745,872.00
  • Renovate labor and delivery suite; Amends and Supersedes Project No. 072090 Change in financing

Hudson Valley Region

WESTCHESTER

092078 White Plains Hospital Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/11/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $0.00
  • Upgrade adult diagnostic cardiac catheterization program to adult emergency and elective interventional program

New York City Region

BRONX

091041 Morningside House Nursing Home Company, Inc.

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/22/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,000.00
  • Expand the LTHHCP capacity by 24 slots for a revised capacity of 324 slots. This CON relates to a rightsizing action that deleted 24 RHCF beds

New York City Region

BRONX

091145 New York Renal Associates, Inc.

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/30/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $0.00
  • Change in stockownership interest between existing stockholders that requires Public Health Council approval

New York City Region

BRONX

082133 United Cerebral Palsy Association of New York State, Inc. D/B/A Jerome Belson Health Care Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/29/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $6,639,060.00
  • Relocate multi–purpose extension clinic serving developmentally disabled population from 245 East 149th Street, Bronx to a new constructed site at 1880 Boston Road, Bronx

New York City Region

KINGS

092060 Interfaith Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/16/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,000.00
  • Implement lithotripsy service through contracted service provider

New York City Region

KINGS

082158 Liberty RC, Inc.

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/13/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $0.00
  • Liberty RC, Inc., requests approval to become the new operator of South Brooklyn Nephrology Center and its Dyker Heights Dialysis Center extension clinic

New York City Region

KINGS

091106 Maimonides Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/17/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $6,021,125.00
  • Renovate the third floor of the Kronish Building to accommodate a 24 post–partum obstetric beds and 24 nursery bassinets - HEAL 7

New York City Region

KINGS

091037 New York Regional Services, LLC d/b/a New York Regional Dialysis Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/30/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,352,033.00
  • Establish and construct a diagnostic and treatment center for the provision of a freestanding 20–station chronic renal dialysis facility in Brooklyn

New York City Region

KINGS

091050 SSNY Planning, LLC d/b/a Sports Surgicenter of New York

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/13/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $0.00
  • SSNY Planning, LLC requests approval to become the new operator of Beth Israel Ambulatory Surgery Center Brooklyn Division

New York City Region

KINGS

092018 University Hospital of Brooklyn

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/22/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $11,237,923.00
  • Renovate the transplant unit to provide single patient rooms and individual shower facilities; improve HVAC and support services

New York City Region

KINGS

091138 Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/22/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $3,878,178.00
  • Renovate and expand outpatient obstetrics and gynecological services resulting in eight (8) net new exam rooms and relocate the Women's Health Clinic from the second floor to the renovated eighth floor– HEAL NY Phase 7

New York City Region

NEW YORK

091171 Health Unlimited

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/1/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $2,000.00
  • Certify a part time clinic service for the future processing of a separate part time clinic application for two (2) shelter sites

New York City Region

NEW YORK

081112 Mount Sinai Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/10/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $66,521.00
  • Revised: October 21, 2008 – Include the entire Ruttenberg Treatment area to transform Faculty Practice Association medical office suite into Article 28 space

New York City Region

NEW YORK

092101 Mount Sinai Hospital

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/29/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $1,295,469.00
  • Add four (4) on–site chronic renal dialysis stations for pediatric dialysis patients which increases the total number of dialysis stations at the Renal Treatment Center from 12 to 16

New York City Region

NEW YORK

051108 New York Presbyterian Hospital at New York Weill Cornell Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/22/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $92,501.00
  • Certify a liver transplant service at Weill Cornell Medical Center; Revised: April 22, 2009 Revised with updated CON schedules

New York City Region

NEW YORK

091121 NYU Hospitals Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/29/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $8,677,950.00
  • Expand and reconfigure the Anatomic Pathology Laboratory

New York City Region

QUEENS

091143 Long Island Jewish Medical Center

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 12/22/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $36,214,529.00
  • Implement an electronic medical records system

New York City Region

QUEENS

092023 New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens

  • APPLICATION APPROVED ON 11/18/2009
  • APPROVED PROJECT COST: $8,395,856.00
  • Renovate and expand emergency department