WHITE PLAINS – The latest in White Plains Hospital’s expansion efforts will bear fruit in July when it begins a phased-in opening of a 75,000-square-foot, multi-specialty center at the Vernon Hills Shopping Center in Scarsdale.
Through a fit-out and renovation White Plains Hospital Physician Associates will open its outpatient facility that will feature several specialty physician practices along with a full imaging center including pulmonary function testing and echocardiography testing. It will also be home to 40 physicians in a variety of specialties, including: orthopedic surgery, pain management, pediatrics, plastic surgery, internal medicine, OB/GYN, dermatology, Mohs micrographic surgery, cardiology, ENT, audiology & balance testing, neurology, urology, endocrinology, pulmonary medicine and pulmonology, allergy and immunology.
“We are incredibly proud to continue to expand and offer our expertise locally, where it is needed most,” said Frances Bordoni, the hospital’s executive vice president of ambulatory & physician services & business development. “Our new location is located just 5 miles from the hospital and fits in perfectly with our ongoing dedication to providing high-quality, team-based care for residents of Westchester County and beyond.”
Featuring more than 300 physicians in 50-plus practices across 33 outpatient locations throughout Westchester County and the Hudson Valley, WPHPA excels at increasing patient access to local providers, enhancing the patient-provider connection, and serving as a trusted partner throughout the region.
The outpatient facility at 750 White Plains Road in Scarsdale is expected to be fully occupied by October. It is expected to see more than 100,000 patients annually once fully occupied. Additionally, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, a partner in the Montefiore Health System, has an outpatient practice at this location that opened this month.
This is the fourth multi-specialty ambulatory center that WPHPA has opened, along with its Center for Advanced Medicine & Surgery in White Plains, WPHPA of New Rochelle, and White Plains Hospital Medical & Wellness in Armonk – all of which have imaging capabilities at each location.
The new facility is a transformational reuse of the prominent retail space that once housed Lord & Taylor. In addition to retrofitting that space, White Plains Hospital Physician Associates proposed enhancements to two existing south and west entrances as well as the north and east entrances back. The hospital applied for modifications with the Eastchester Architectural Review Board (ARB) to their leased space at the shopping center in 2024. The project was approved by the ARB and Planning Board in September 2023.
WPH expansion efforts
The outpatient facility fit-out in Scarsdale is part of an overall expansion plan for White Plains Hospital.
“We understand that New York City hospitals are looking to expand in our area,” Susan Fox, White Plains Hospital’s president and CEO, told the Westfair Business Journal earlier this year. “Our goal is to provide the best care to our community, and we are able to provide the full continuum of care locally so that patients do not have to travel. This expansion, combined with our outpatient network that has specialists at more than 30 locations throughout the region, supports our commitment to this community.”
At the hospital itself, construction has begun on Davis Avenue and former parking garage site. Has begun. A 10-story, 475,000-square-foot building rise there. It will accomplish three objectives, Fox said.
- It will increase the hospital’s bed capacity from 292 to 436, with the addition of 144 private beds.
- It will add 10 more operating rooms.
- And it will more than double the size of the emergency room.
The new building – designed by Payette, a Boston architectural firm, to be realized by Manhattan-based Suffolk Construction – will cost an estimated $750 million, $500 million of which is financed, with the rest coming from philanthropy and operating expenses, Fox said.
