Stony Brook Medicine isset to open a four-floor additiontoits children's hospital.The health system said it will move patients to the new facility on Nov. 17.
The project is part of a larger$450 million expansion that also includes a cancer centeron Stony Brook Universitys East Campus,adjacent and connectedto Stony Brook University Hospital.
"It all enhances the impact of Stony Brook Medicine," said Dr. Michael Bernstein, interim president at Stony Brook University. "Suffolk County is growing economically and population-wise, and our mission grows along with that, and that's to provide affordable, accessible, state-of-the-artcare."
The new facility, which includes 48single-bed rooms,will be home to a large portion of Stony Brook'schildren's hospital, which was formally established in 2010. The addition gives the hospital 114 pediatric beds overall. Each year it treats more than 8,000 pediatric inpatients, 25,000 pediatric emergency room patients, and sees more than 106,000 pediatric outpatients. There are 3,700 pediatric surgeries at Stony Brook annually.
"The last place a child wants to be is in a hospital," Bernstein said. "But with their reality being what it is, we have made it welcoming, non-threatening and supportive. And from a practical level, that will lead to better outcomes too."
Stony Brook said other improvements in the new facility include upgraded technology and support rooms for caregiversand patients. Included is a Ronald McDonald Family Room, which offers families of children undergoing medical treatment a place to rest and recharge. The room includes couches, computers and warm meals that are donated by area restaurants.
New Hyde Park-based Ronald McDonald House of Long Island plans to build a house on the Stony Brook campus. The house would help families of patients stay closer to the hospital.
The hospital also has a wall-length video board that has a live feed from the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead.
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"We have a very active family advisory council and we received a lot of feedback about what they wanted here," said Maureen Cole, associate director of nursing at the children's hospital. "And we have a youth advisory council that gave a lot of feedback as well."
"We will have 30 different pediatric specialties here,"said Dr. Margaret McGovern,vice president for health system clinical programs and strategy at Stony Brook Medicine and physician-in-chiefat the childrens hospital.
The specialties, which include treatment of autism and developmental disabilities, cardiology, critical care management, hematology/oncology, oral surgery and child psychiatry,will be supported by 180 pediatric physicians and more than 200 nurses.
Stony Brook also has a 46-bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and serves as the regional perinatal center for Suffolk County. It has a 10-bed pediatric inpatient psych unit and the only pediatricburn center in Suffolk County. The burn center also has 10 beds. The NICU, psych rooms and burn center will remain in their current location at the main hospital.
The health system operates a 24/7 pediatric emergency department staffed by pediatric physicians trained in emergency medicine.
"Any at-risk or injured child in Suffolk County will end up here," McGovern said. "We will bring an at-risk or injured child in from anywhere in the county and get them, whether it's by helicopter or ambulance."
The childrens hospital expansion was funded with the help of $50 million in state aid, as well as$25 million in contributions from a total of 3,584 donors to the Childrens Hospital Building Fund. The contributions included twomatching gifts:$10 millionfrom an anonymous donor and $2.5 millionfrom the Knapp Swezey Childrens Challenge.
The Childrens Hospital Task Force, chaired first by John Tsunis and then by Mark Eghrari, helped generate support for the project.
State grants, and about $50 million froma larger gift from James and Marilyn Simons also went toward the new structure.
A ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of the children's hospital is scheduled for Thursday. The hospital will hold a community open house on Nov. 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
David Reich-Hale reports on the business of health care, banking and other topics. He joined Newsday in 2014. He has also worked at American Banker and the New Haven Register. He is from Trumbull, Connecticut.
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