NYU Langone to Open New 21-Story Inpatient Facility Later This Month
The Kimmel Pavilion totals 830,000 square feet, including 11 patient floors, It features 374 exclusively single-bedded rooms that hospital officials say will provide patients and their families privacy, reduce the risk of infection, and improve staff workflow.
NEW YORK CITY—Officials with NYU Langone Health gave a “sneak peak” to its recently completed Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Pavilion, part of its reimagined campus on 1st Avenue here.
NYU Langone Health will open the doors to the public on June 24 to the new 21-story inpatient facility that also includes the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital—34th Street, the first children’s hospital built in New York City in nearly 15 years and NYU Langone’s new flagship pediatric inpatient care location.
Officials with NYU Langone say the opening of the pavilion marks the largest and most extensive revitalization in its history. NYU Langone’s campus transformation initiative adds 1.2 million square feet of new space to its main campus on the East Side.
In addition to the Kimmel Pavilion, the new construction includes the Science Building, a new state-of-the-art research facility that opened earlier this year and accommodates up to 800 biomedical researchers, and the Energy Building, the centerpiece of NYU Langone’s plan to become a resilient health system and a leader in sustainability.
“The opening of our new Kimmel Pavilion and Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital location is the culmination of more than a decade of planning and construction, reflecting our overall vision to grow as a world-class, patient-centered, integrated academic health system focused on quality and excellence in clinical care, education, and research,” says Robert I. Grossman, MD, Saul J. Farber, dean and CEO of NYU Langone.
The Kimmel Pavilion totals 830,000 square feet, including 11 patient floors, It features 374 exclusively single-bedded rooms that hospital officials say will provide patients and their families privacy, reduce the risk of infection, and improve staff workflow.
The pavilion includes 30 operating rooms and image-guided labs, with acute care and critical care services in hematology/oncology, bone marrow and solid organ transplantation, neuroscience, surgery, and cardiothoracic care, as well as medicine and surgery units. It connects at multiple levels to NYU Langone’s Tisch Hospital, with amenities that include a new outdoor terrace, café, coffee bar, retail pharmacy, and conference center.
The Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital—34th Street is the only pediatric inpatient facility in Manhattan with all single-patient rooms. It takes up several floors of Kimmel and totals 168,000 square feet. It is accessible through its own entrance and features 68 single-patient rooms.
“Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital’s mission is guided by unparalleled commitment to partnering with children and families. Everyone, from doctors to nurses to support staff, is dedicated to making sure that children are put at ease, that parents’ voices are heard, and that the entire family knows their children aren’t just cared for, but cared about,” says Catherine S. Manno, MD, Pat and John Rosenwald Professor of Pediatrics and chair of the Department of Pediatrics.
More than 400 doctors from 35 specialties provide inpatient and outpatient care at the facility. Services include a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Congenital Cardiovascular Care Unit; surgery services; cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology, and bronchoscopy labs; positive and negative pressure isolation units; procedural and surgical services; and the KiDS Emergency Department.