LICH sale signed; NYU Langone agrees to build medical facility
NYU Langone has agreed to build a 125,000-square-foot freestanding emergency department (ED) – essentially an urgent care center – on the site formerly known as Long Island College Hospital (LICH). The ED will be nearly double the size of previous proposals.
It will cost $175 million, have a staff of 400 – 70 of them doctors. It will also restore ambulance service for the neighborhood. It is anticipated that once ambulance service resumes, 35 to 50 patients a day will be serviced.
The center would be complete by 2018.