LAKE SUCCESS, NY-The North Shore-LIJ Health System announced Thursday it will spend $175 million to expand its cancer services, open new cancer treatment centers and make the North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute a system-wide cancer care brand. The move will consolidate some service locations and upgrade equipment.
In announcing the investment, the system said that historically its cancer services had been delivered by its individual hospitals and affiliated community-based physicians. "While the health system's current cancer program is quite large—probably larger than most people think—we're looking to grow but also to create an identity and brand," says Dr. Louis Potters, co-director of the Cancer Institute and NS-LIJ's chair of radiation medicine.
Some facilities will get a substantial investment, including a $67 million construction project underway at the system's Center for Advanced Medicine in Lake Success, where a 61,150-square-foot addition for cancer services is being built. Radiation medicine and surgical, gynecologic and neuro-oncology services now delivered at LIJ Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital will be relocated to CFAM.
At Lenox Hill, in Manhattan, the money will pay for upgrading services.
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