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.”
Mary’s Avenue campus
Broadway campus
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.
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.
