SHRPC Update

At its meeting on March 29, 2007, the State Hospital Review and Planning Council (SHRPC) approved (in some cases with conditions or contingencies), the following GNYHA member projects: Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, conversion of 10 medical/surgical beds to 10 chemical dependency beds, creating a chemical dependency unit; Good Samaritan Hospital of Suffern, construction of an electrophysiology studies laboratory to complement the hospital's inpatient and outpatient cardiac program; Roosevelt Island Renal Corporation, approval of a for-profit corporation to establish and construct a diagnostic and treatment center to provide a 12-station chronic renal dialysis service for residents of Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility, on the campus of Coler-Goldwater; Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center, reconfiguration of the facility from 510 residential health care facility (RHCF) beds to 354 RHCF beds and renovation/modernization of the facility in connection with a HEAL-NY Phase II grant; Prime Health Services, LLC, approval to acquire the Interfaith Medical Center Certified Home Health Agency; and Lenox Hill Hospital and Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital (MEETH), approval for a full asset merger, consistent with the final report of the Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century. In connection with this recommendation, all 150 inpatient medical/surgical beds and emergency department services will be eliminated at MEETH and it will become an extension clinic site.
 
 

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