The 150-physician Westchester Medical Group plans to build and open this year an ambulatory surgery center at its state-of-the-art medical complex in Rye.
The New York State Public Health Council recently approved construction of the 14,490-square-foot center, the cost of which is projected at $7.1 million. Construction is expected to start in early June in currently unoccupied ground-floor space of the physician group”™s 1 Theall Road offices. A grand opening is expected by the end of this year.
The 65,000-square-foot medical building in Rye, the former headquarters of Lillian Vernon Corp., was vacant when joint-venture investors, including some Westchester Medical Group (WMG) physicians, purchased the building and 7-acre property in 2006 for $9.6 million. The WMG invested $6 million in renovations to the two-story building.
The ambulatory surgery center will include four operating rooms and two procedure rooms and provide services to patients who do not require a hospital-based operating suite. Dr. Barney Newman, WMG medical director, said the facility will provide “greater ease and comfort for patients and their families.”
Common procedures performed there will be in the areas of breast surgery, ear, nose and throat, general surgery, urology, obstetrics/gynecology, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, orthopedics, podiatry and vascular surgery.
“We”™re excited to have the opportunity to expand the scope of services to our patients in this facility to provide more coordinated, efficient, quality care,” said Dr. Simeon Schwartz, WMG president.
A physician-owned and physician-managed multi-specialty group practice, WMG has offices
in White Plains, Purchase, Rye, Scarsdale, Eastchester, Larchmont and
Yonkers.
