NEWBURGH – Once federal regulators approve it, St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Eastern Orange County will become part of the Montefiore Health System, headquartered in the Bronx.
The system includes Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a total of 10 hospitals.
SLCH will retain its identity and the majority of board members, but it will have a new parent organization in what officials call a strategic partnership.
The bottom line to the partnership is Montefiore’s doctors and specialties will be available to residents of the Mid-Hudson Valley.
“Our neighbors will continue to receive the same great care from the same dedicated doctors, nurses and staff, only with greater access to specialty care, expanding our ability to do more for them,” said Interim SLCH President Joan Cusack-McGuirk.
Montefiore’s President, Dr. Steven Safyer told an announcement gathering at SLCH’s Newburgh campus on Monday that both hospitals have the same goals.
“We have a commonality in terms of how we conceive of healthcare and we have a community here, albeit with a lot of diversity and a lot of different components making it up, but there is a lot of challenge of challenge here too, and there is a lot of need and we believe together we can fulfill the missions that are commanding us to come together and we can do them better, I think, than separately and alone,” Safyer said.
Cusack-McGuirk said in addition to improving healthcare to the region, the partnership will help St. Luke’s Cornwall to reduce its deficit.
