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$342M project planned for N.S. Hospital
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Extension set to house 18 operating rooms, 44 private intensive care rooms BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I North Shore University Hospital is looking decades into the future with a planned $342 million expansion for operating rooms and intensive care units. North Shore University Hospital Chief Operating Officer Derek Anderson presented the expansion plan to the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations last Wednesday alongside Cannon Designs architect Andrew Pecora and Northwell Health’s capital projects director, Elena Danilova. “The purpose of this project is to not expand the campus, it’s to replace a lot of infrastructure and ICU beds and operating rooms that frankly are aged,” Anderson said. “As the hospital has grown over the years and as the technology within healthcare has certainly changed, adapted and morphed in every different direction, the physical environment in which we’re providing
healthcare is totally different than it was even five or 10 years ago.” The building, which will connect to the existing Payson Whitney Tower, is set to house 44 intensive care unit private rooms — half for cardiothoracic patients and half for neurosurgery patients — as well as 18 operating rooms and two shell floors for future intensive care rooms. The six-level building will house a lobby on the first floor, the operating rooms on the second floor, the intensive care unit on the third floor, a mechanical floor on the fourth floor and two levels for future intensive care rooms on the fifth and sixth floors. The first three floors will be connected to Payson Whitney Tower for ease of traffic through the lobby and for movement of surgical and intensive care patients. “When you look at the physical environments in which we’re providing that care, it’s not meetContinued on Page 109
PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI
Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement advocate Jack Davis spent nearly 30 years in the New York prison system and spoke at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock on Sunday during the “Photo Requests from Solitary” art exhibit. See story on page 2.
Regeneron semifinalist fills schedule with music, science BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I When Emily Cruz joined the St. Mary’s Church choir in second grade, she didn’t know it would become such an im-
portant part of her life. The following year, Cruz said, she began voice lessons with the choir director, Terence Goff, who has forever affected her in a musical and personal way.
“[Goff has] definitely changed my life,” Cruz said. “He’s taught me that singing is more letting the voice go through you than you controlling the voice, and he’s taught Continued on Page 109
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