Cohen Children’s Medical Center has opened a 26,000-square-foot pediatric outpatient practice in New Hyde Park that includes pediatric cardiology and general surgery in a facility near the hospital.
The new cardiology space, to be known as Cohen Children’s Northwell Health Physician Partners Pediatric Specialists at New Hyde Park, houses 18 physicians and 45 staff members, as well as nine exam rooms, eight echocardiogram rooms and four rooms dedicated for consultations. A general surgery space, which was relocated from the hospital, will be used primarily for pre- and post-operative visits and features 10 examination and two consultation rooms staffed by seven clinicians and 16 staff members.
Moving pediatric cardiology and general surgery to an outpatient location was necessary to make room for a new 24,000-square-foot inpatient pediatric surgical complex, which is under construction within the hospital’s Blumenfeld Family Pavilion. When complete, the complex will provide eight dedicated pediatric operating rooms and a 26-bed flexible intake/post-anesthesia care unit.
Currently, Cohen Children’s relies on Long Island Jewish Medical Center, which shares the same campus, for its OR space and recovery beds. The pediatric surgical complex will alleviate that need, ensuring seamless, high-quality care for young patients.
“We’ve come a long way since opening in 1983 as the New York area’s first dedicated children’s hospital,” said Charles Schleien, MD, senior vice president and chair of pediatric services at Northwell Health. “Our latest undertaking reflects our ability to meet the changing health care needs of children in the communities we serve.”
The recently-opened outpatient practice, located at 450 Lakeville Rd. in Northwell Health’s Center for Advance Medicine, is a major piece of Cohen’s $120 million investment in its more than 80 ambulatory offices and new inpatient surgical complex.
About the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York
Founded in 1983, Cohen Children’s Medical Center is a 202-bed hospital dedicated exclusively to the care of children. The specialists in the hospital’s national and international programs cover an entire range of specialties. State-of-the-art care for children’s medical, surgical and dental needs are provided in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The facility is the largest provider of pediatric health services in New York State, serving 1.8 million children in Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. For the 12th consecutive year in 2018, Cohen’s was ranked among the nation’s best children’s hospitals in U.S. News & World Report’s 2018-19 “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” survey, achieving top-50 rankings in eight of 10 pediatric specialties.
Story submitted by Northwell Health.
