Westmed Practice Partners Inc., the management services company formed two years ago by Purchase-based Westmed Medical Group to apply its one-stop polyclinic business model for other health care providers, will partner with a second major New York City hospital at a new facility planned in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
Bronx-based Montefiore Medical Center recently announced it will team with Westmed Practice Partners to lease an 11-story, 93,000-square-foot medical building on which construction is scheduled to begin in November.
Modeled after the Westchester clinics operated by Westmed, the fast-growing 250-physician multispecialty practice group, the outpatient center will include urgent care, primary care, a wide variety of specialty services and radiology services, Montefiore officials said. Westmed will provide administrative and technological support for Montefiore physicians as well as operational and financial services.
Montefiore”™s long-time real estate development partner, Simone Healthcare Development Group, has acquired the site at 3741-3745 Riversdale Ave, where three commercial buildings will be demolished. The project is expected to be completed in about 18 months.
The Riverdale medical center is the second partnership in the New York boroughs for Westchester Practice Partners. In January, Westmed opened a 75,000-square-foot outpatient center for Mount Sinai Doctors Brooklyn Heights, a multispecialty group practice affiliated with Mount Sinai Medical Center.
