The new multi-million dollar, 160-bed skilled nursing facility will will include four floors of 40 beds per floor and necessary support space. The facility will provide various medical services, social and rehabilitation services, as well as services in audiology, physical therapy, pulmonary care, post surgical care, orthopedic care, wound management, renal, stroke and oncology care.
Hospital officials say the skilled nursing facility, which is being built on the Mercy campus, adds the long-term component of care needed to complete the existing continuum of acute and sub-acute care. They said the population needing such care is growing.
The blueprints say this is a four-story, 160-bed Skilled Nursing Facility for sub-acute and long-term care, said Mercy President Martin A. Bieber. It appears to be made of steel, brick and mortar. All pretty traditional no particular surprises. But in truth, it is made of commitment, vision, confidence and foresight. It is also part of a much larger mission that allow Mercy Medical Center to develop innovative programs that expand a broad spectrum of health related services that will meet the current and future needs of the community we serve.
Bieber went on to describe some of the other changes at Mercy, including the new ambulatory surgery and endoscopy suite, as well as nine new operating rooms and a new recovery room facility. Mercy is also moving forward with construction of the Michael J. Tenaglia MIRACLE Building, future home of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which will allow physicians and technologists to provide their services to even more members of our community.
And so you see this isn-t about a single ceremony observing a construction milestone, Bieber said. It is about an institution that is changing for the better and by doing so, is greatly improving the quality of care for every individual who looks to us to protect their health.
State Senator Dean Skelos of Rockville Centre was the keynote speaker for the ceremony. He praised the hospital, saying it is state of the art not only when it comes to technology but also when it comes to patient care.
Mayor Eugene Murray was also on hand to celebrate. He recalled watching the hospital-s main building being built when he was just 15 years old. His sister is a member of the Nursing Sisters of the Congregation of the Infant Jesus, which founded the hospital in 1913.
