KINGSTON – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley is on the way to
a major transformation as the state has given its support to the transformation
of the Mary’s Avenue Campus in Kingston into a single, state-of-the-art
hospital and to redevelop its Broadway campus into a “medical village.”
The state awarded the Kingston facilities $88.8 million to help pay for
the projects. Now the Kingston Planning Board must approve the architectural
and construction plans and the state Health Department must grant a certificate
of need.
Once approved, it will herald the most comprehensive construction and
facilities renovations and conversions in the 122-year history of the
two hospitals.
All HealthAlliance services will remain available throughout the transformation.
Broadway campus
Mary’s Avenue campus
The new, expanded HealthAlliance Hospital will provide technologically
sophisticated surgical, diagnostic and therapeutic services for acute
and critical care inpatients.
It will also house the emergency department, which is projected to be
larger than the current facility on Broadway and will have an enlarged
fast track walk-in care center.
The medical village will be a neighborhood focal point, providing advanced,
easy access to conventional and integrative health services. Plans are
in the works for community partners to offer primary care, behavioral
health and other support services and for Health Alliance to offer a new
Outpatient Center for Rehabilitative Care and other facilities. Compatible
retail shops will provide other amenities. The village is expected to
open in two phases starting as early as two years after approvals.
The transformed hospital and medical village are critical elements to
a new “Health Neighborhood Initiative” HealthAlliance is developing
with the educational and training institutions located between the two
campuses, with city and county officials, and with community organizations
and healthcare providers, hospital officials said.
HealthAlliance submitted its proposal as part of a Westchester Medical
Center-led partnership known under the Delivery System Report incentive
Payment Program as a preferred provider system.
