Expansion planned for NYU Lutheran
New ambulatory surgery site on drawing board
NYU Langone Health System, which has been overseeing the former Lutheran Medical Center in Sunset Park since the two health care institutions merged, has big plans for the Brooklyn site, according to a top official who said the hospital will be expanded.
Joseph Lhota, who ran for mayor as a Republican in 2013 and who is now the senior vice president and chief of staff at NYU Langone, spoke at a Community Board 10 meeting Monday night and revealed ambitious plans to expand the main campus of the hospital that is now called NYU Lutheran Medical Center.
“Changes are coming,” Lhota told Board 10 at the meeting, which took place at Shore Hill at 9000 Shore Road.
The plans include adding more space to the main hospital building at 150 55th St. and constructing a new ambulatory and out-patient facility in a site where a parking lot is now located on 56th Street between First and Second avenues. The new ambulatory center is needed, according to Lhota, who said the delivery of health care is rapidly changing across the U.S.