Hospital for Special Surgery has leased 50,000 square feet of space at 1133 Westchester Ave. in White Plains for what will be the Manhattan hospital”™s largest outpatient center in its four-state specialty health care system.
The deal was announced on Thursday by landlord Robert P. Weisz, CEO of RPW Group in Rye Brook, at the annual BOMA Westchester State of the Market luncheon. Weisz owns the approximately 620,000-square-foot office building where Hospital for Special Surgery expects to open in the fourth quarter of 2017.
The 153-year old hospital in a press release today said a build-out of its space in the former IBM Corp. building on Westchester”™s Platinum Mile office-park corridor will start in September.
Hospital officials said the outpatient center will be the largest in its system, which includes a $12.6 million, 18,000-square-foot facility at Chelsea Piers Connecticut in Stamford, which opened in early 2015. The hospital, perennially ranked the top hospital in the U.S. for orthopedics by US News and World Report in its Best Hospitals listings, also operates outpatient centers in Fresh Meadows, Queens; Uniondale, Long Island; Paramus, New Jersey, and several sites in Manhattan, in addition to HSS Spine and Sport in Jupiter, Florida. The Upper East Side hospital was ranked third in rheumatology and seventh in geriatrics nationally by US News & World Report on its 2015-2016 list.
“HSS is dedicated to providing access to high quality specialty care and our increased presence in regional communities is evident,” said Louis A Shapiro, president and CEO of Hospital for Special Surgery, in today”™s announcement. “This new location gives us a unique opportunity to create a facility ideal for Westchester County residents who want the unmatched excellence of HSS closer to home.”
Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino said his administration “worked hard to make this a reality. HSS and the county are leaders when it comes to providing for quality of life. The new outpatient center is another step forward.”
The hospital on East 70th Street is a member of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System and an affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan.
The specialty hospital”™s expansion into Westchester follows NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital”™s northward expansion into the county”™s community hospital sector in the last two years, when it became parent organization and co-operator of Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville and Hudson Valley Hospital in Cortlandt Manor.
