Yonkers hospitals receive state funding

Saint Joseph’s Medical Center and St. John’s Riverside Hospital, both in Yonkers, have been awarded grants from New York state. The grants were part of more than $658 million in state funding to support 127 projects designed to enhance the state”™s health care delivery system. An additional $1.15 billion is expected to be awarded in the future.

Saint Joseph”™s was awarded approximately $6.7 million in Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program (STP) funding for capital improvements.

The funding will be used to expand behavioral health services and enhance access to specialty care linked to primary care. Some of the money will go to renovations at St. Vincent”™s Behavioral Health Center in Harrison. St. Vincent’s is a division of St. Joseph’s Medical Center.

“We are very pleased to receive this state funding for capital improvement projects that will enhance the level of care we provide to our communities,” said Michael J. Spicer, president and CEO of Saint Joseph”™s.

St. John’s Riverside Hospital was awarded $34,062,125 to pay for renovations and upgrades to its surgical service including a post anesthesia care unit, as well as a maternity suite.

Acting State Health Commissioner James McDonald said, “These funds will enable our health care providers and facilities to further modernize and integrate health care services to ensure that New Yorkers receive access to the medical care they require now and for future generations.”