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CAMPUS TRANSFORMATION: Relocations and the Urban Campus

Kimmel Program Relocations-Urban CampusThe massive revamping of clinical resources in the North Clinical Campus, as well as the other major construction projects of the Campus Transformation, are being implemented without compromising current Medical Center operations. The key to this is a carefully orchestrated process of phased relocations of many programs, administrative offices and serivces—a challenge that calls for new heights of creativity, collaboration and perseverance across the Medical Center community.

Working closely with senior leadership, program and department leaders to assess current and future space needs, the Campus Transformation project team has acquired sites and designed new facilities to turn the multi-faceted, complex relocation strategy into reality. Phased design and construction of many of the components of this relocation strategy are under way.

Making Way for Kimmel Pavilion

The two buildings that house the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Perelman Institute will be demolished to make way for the Kimmel Pavilion, NYU Langone Medical Center's planned new high acuity clinical facility. This in turn has set in motion the relocation of Rusk's rehabilitation services to NYU Langone facilities off the main campus. Rusk's pediatric and adult inpatient rehabilitation programs, as well as its pediatric outpatient rehab program, will move to NYU Langone Medical Center's Hospital for Joint Diseases, at 301 East 17th Street.

To accommodate this relocation, approximately 20,500 square feet of space will be renovated on the 4th and 5th floors at HJD to provide rehab support space for those Rusk programs, while 13,000 square feet on the HJD 8th and 9th floors will be renovated to house the Rusk rehab beds.

Before these Rusk program can move to HJD, however, the outpatient clinics at HJD had to be transferred to other facilities:

  • The Diabetes Foot & Ankle Care and Wound Care Clinics (DFAC-WC) as well as the Ambulatory Care Clinics, which were on HJD 5 and 10, have relocated to a 12,800 square-foot space at 324 East 23rd Street. DFAC offers podiatry services, diagnostic testing, vascular evaluations, wound care, physical therapy, foot and ankle procedures and diabetes education. The Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Wound Healing Center treats chronic, non-healing wounds. The Ambulatory Care clinics offer services that range from orthopaedics and rheumatology to specialty clinics for Medicaid and Medicare patients. Each of the two clinic "pods" has its own entrance and identity from the street, its own reception and waiting room, clinical support and office space. They  share some specialized support and staff amenities, as well as two diagnostic radiology rooms. Construction at the new space began in April 2011 and finished in late 2011; the first patients began visiting the facilities in January 2012.
  • The Initiative for Women with Disabilities (IWD), which was on HJD 5, moved to a 4,200 square-foot space at 359 Second Avenue. IWD provides medical and gynecological care to women with physical disabilities, as well as wellness classes, support groups and education. IWD's new space was ready for patients in late 2011.
  • Behavioral Medicine, currently on HJD 10, will occupy 2,000 square feet at 246 20th street. The clinic provides psychiatric services to HJD patients. This project will commence construction in early 2012. 

In all cases, relocated programs and departments are going to spaces better suited to their needs, and in many cases that will also allow for anticipated growth.

Extending Research and Science Beyond the Main Campus 

Real Estate Development & Facilities has secured suitable off-campus sites including substantial square footage inside the Verizon Buildings on 240 East 38th and 227 East 30th Streets, 180 Varick Street, and the East River Science Park just to the south of the Superblock.

In 2010, NYU Langone acquired approximately 70,000 square feet of space in the 30th Street building, to house a new Clinical and Translational Science Institute, together with a number of major programs in population sciences, community health, biostatistics, epidemiology and bioinformatics. The new facility, known as the Translational Research Building, is now open. A new entrance specifically for NYULMC personnel was built and opened in the last week of March 2012.

 

Both NHULMC's research facilities at 180 Varick Street and the East River Science Park are being occupied in phases.

In parallel, NYU Langone has built and opened the New York Simulation Center for Health Sciences, a facility at Bellevue Hospital. The facility, a partnership between CUNY and NYULMC, provides training to Medical Center students, residents and nursing staff, as well as individuals from NYU’s Colleges of Nursing and Dentistry, the health science schools of CUNY, and New York City’s emergency responders.

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