Nicole Fuentes
Back in 2018, Long Island Community Hospital, an NYU Langone affiliate, sold the West Main Street hemodialysis building while maintaining the service.
At that time, there was talk about moving the service to the former John J. Foley Nursing Facility at 4 Grover Drive, in Yaphank, which never happened due to the sale of that building last year. The county originally sold the building to formerly Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center.
Instead, the 30,000-square-foot facility was renovated in 2021 through four phases of design and construction. The newly renovated unit has a wider lobby with spacious treatment rooms and includes a 50 percent expansion with 36 new chairs. The facility also has a new state-of-the-art reverse osmosis dialysis system that provides the highest water quality using heat technology for disinfection to ensure a purified water treatment.
Additional improvements in the total renovation included new landscaping, LED lighting throughout the entire building, a modern reception desk, an expanded new breakroom, and new locker rooms.
As for an update on the old Burlington building located on East Main Street, according to NYU Langone officials, the building is currently undergoing construction with plans to open as an ambulatory surgical center in 2025.
NYU Langone Health is one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers and is the active parent of Long Island Community Hospital. Back in March, Long Island Community Hospital and NYU Langone Health announced their affiliation between the two organizations after receiving state and federal regulatory approvals.
Burlington announced their planned relocation to Sunrise Highway in late 2020 and has since reopened in the Gateway Plaza.
In 2022, the Village of Patchogue sold approximately 30 spaces to NYU Langone. According to village officials, NYU paid the appraised price of $315,000 for the lot located directly behind the recently purchased and former Burlington building. The space, according to the village, will be used for employee parking. The decision, Pontieri said, made sense, being that it is not a heavily used parking lot and the money earned from the sale can be used to develop more parking closer to Main Street.
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