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SCHENECTADY Ellis Medicine and St. Peter’s Health Partners are pursuing shared services and other partnerships but their planned merger is on hold for now.
Ellis President and CEO Paul Milton said Thursday he hopes and believes the merger will be completed, perhaps in 2023, but Ellis will be collaborating with SPHP in the interim as the Schenectady-based organization tries to recover from the crippling financial impact of the COVID pandemic.
Ellis Medicine’s revenue plunged from $455 million in 2019 to $402 million in 2020, and it incurred a $33 million loss for 2020.
But the need to merge into a larger organization was apparent before 2020, Milton said: Ellis is just too small to be viable on its own for the long term in the healthcare industry as it now exists.
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Ellis Medicine is opening a new mental health clinic for children and adolescents in Schenectady, New York.
The $1.5 million clinic opening Monday relocates the network’s mental health services for kids and teens from the McClellan Street Health Center to a larger space next to the adult facility at the State Street Health Center. Ellis officials say they’ve planned to bring the two outpatient clinics together for years – but the timing is apt. Mental Health Service Line Director Lin Murray says, like adults, kids have been struggling during the pandemic.
Kids can play on a keyboard on a tactile mural in the front lobby.
Proposed transitional housing in Schenectady aims to give teenage moms a lift
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1of5Buy PhotoA view of Ellis Medicine McClellan Street campus on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, inSchenectady, N.Y. The parking lot area in the foreground is part of the area where a proposed $7.4 million transitional housing project for teenage parents would be built. Ellis Medicine is teaming up with a local non-profit for the project. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
2of5Buy PhotoA view of Ellis Medicine McClellan Street campus on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, inSchenectady, N.Y. The parking lot area in the foreground is part of the area where a proposed $7.4 million transitional housing project for teenage parents would be built. Ellis Medicine is teaming up with a local non-profit for the project. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less