NYU Langone-Suffolk to build 5-story, 144 bed hospital tower

NYU Langone-Suffolk, formerly Long Island Community Hospital, plans to build a 144-bed hospital tower addition to the Patchogue based campus.
NYU Langone submitted a Full Review Certificate of Need application to construct a new bed tower facility of 144 private patient medical/surgical and intensive care rooms at 101 Hospital Road. The tower will be located on the south side of the campus and is proposed to be 5-stories.
Upon completion of the tower, the total bed count of 306 beds will remain the same; however, according to hospital officials, “more efficient, usable space will be added to provide current day standards of patient care in a modern facility.”
Additionally, the project will not add any new services.
The plan, according to Senior VP and chief of hospital operations Dr. Marc S. Adler, will include about $650 million in upgrades including the expansion and future plans to renovate the existing units. The project timeline, he said, is to start sometime in the summer of 2026, with three-to-four-year phases.
“The anticipation is that as we complete this, then we will be able to essentially remodel the existing hospital and convert every room to a single bed,” he said noting they are looking to transform the entire campus. “Single bedded rooms support an environment that fosters health and recuperation with better opportunities for patients and their families and caregivers and our staff to connect. It provides a quieter environment and one with less risk of infection.”
Some areas of the existing hospital, Adler explained, date back to when the hospital was first built in the 1950s, where other areas with upgrades as recent as 2016, including the operating rooms, which were also just recently redone and completed within the last few weeks.
“This is a really exciting project, which will bring up to date the standards and practices with the latest technologies and innovations,” Adler said of the tower. “It really gives us an opportunity to not only bring things up to today’s standards but really for the future generations as well. This is the next phase of our growth and transformation in Suffolk County.”
The project, he said, is part of NYU Langone’s overall goal of creating a “seamless integration” of care across the entire health care system from Suffolk County to Nassau and New York City.
NYU Langone also plans to work with the Town of Brookhaven to submit proper applications.
“I’ve met with NYU Langone a few times now, and I’m excited for the residents of Brookhaven,” said supervisor Dan Panico of the project. “Their investment will expand access and the quality of care available to our residents, which is certainly needed on our south shore. I’m hopeful that eventually the northerly property owned by Damianos can be incorporated in the hospital to meet the needs of our residents through the evolving healthcare marketplace.”
Regarding Panico’s suggestion for the Damianos property, hospital officials said that building currently houses several Faculty Group Practice [FGP] offices. Also, as part of the expansion, the hospital plans to move their infusion center to that location at 100 Hospital Road, which will increase the hospital’s infusion chairs from four to 13. At that point, according to officials, the hospital can start offering chemotherapy to new patients and expand its treatment offerings for neurological diseases outside of multiple sclerosis.

Since its affiliation with NYU Langone Health began in March 2022, the hospital has undergone a transformation and is now making the merger official. The hospital has added robotic surgery and gynecologic oncology, enhanced vascular, surgical, gastroenterology, and orthopedic services, and improved key outcomes such as length of stay and infection rates.
Back in 2018, the hospital formerly known as Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center with a brief trial period as Long Island Medical Center, was re-named Long Island Community Hospital. The hospital is now NYU Langone-Suffolk, which is in line with NYU’s other locations: NYU Langone-Brooklyn and NYU Langone-Long Island, located in Mineola.
On March 3, of this year, NYU Langone Health celebrated the official full merger with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Knapp Cardiac Care Center at the hospital in East Patchogue.