Walsh/Consigli completes $545 million patient pavilion at Vassar Brothers Medical Center
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Walsh Construction and joint venture partner Consigli Construction have completed Nuvance Health s new 752,610-square-foot patient pavilion at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. The $545 million medical pavilion is the largest single construction project in the history of Poughkeepsie and will transform healthcare in the Hudson Valley.
The new pavilion has 264 private patient rooms, 30 critical care rooms, a 66-room emergency department, 12 surgical suites and a 300-seat conference center. (Photo credit: Brad Feinknopf)
The new pavilion has 264 private patient rooms, 30 critical care rooms, a 66-room emergency department, 12 surgical suites and a 300-seat conference center. The private patient rooms offer more than twice the space per patient than current semi-private patient rooms. The eig
By Mid Hudson News -www.midhudsonnews.com
Jan 6, 2021
POUGHKEEPSIE – The new patient pavilion at Vassar Brothers Medical Center is set to open within days.
The emergency department and trauma center will open on Friday, January 9 and the remainder of the facility will open on Monday, January 11.
Patients who are sick or recovering from surgery will stay in private suites with room for family members to spend the night, once COVID-19 visitation restrictions are lifted.
The emergency and trauma center will triple the amount of exam and treatment rooms.
Hospital President Peter Kelly said the new facility “will transform how people receive healthcare in the Hudson Valley.”
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In Connecticut s largest office space lease this year, Nuvance Health Systems has rented a 220,000 square foot office space in Danbury, and will hire 500 employees.
Nuvance, formerly Western Connecticut Medical, is leasing a portion space at the newly named Summit at Danbury space for 12 years and may expand to 300,000 square feet in the facility.
The space, according to Nuvance, will include its executive headquarters, labs, clinical facilities and its back offices.
Before it was purchased by Summit Development, the building at 100 Reserve Road was called The Matrix and home to the Union Carbide world headquarters, under foreclosure and only 15 percent of the space was occupied.
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