{"id":981,"date":"2025-04-11T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2025-04-13T00:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T00:16:46","slug":"just-too-complicated-nyu-langone-pauses-plans-for-3-billion-nassau-county-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/just-too-complicated-nyu-langone-pauses-plans-for-3-billion-nassau-county-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Just too complicated\u2019: NYU Langone pauses plans for $3 billion Nassau County hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NYU Langone Health <\/span>scrapped its $3 billion project<\/span><\/a> to build a hospital at Nassau Community College due to technical factors that proved to be \u201ctoo burdensome,\u201d despite initially touting it as an opportunity to expand specialty services and medical technologies to Long Island. Now, Long Island lawmakers are demanding greater transparency about what led to the change.<\/span><\/p>\n

The project was announced in May 2023 as a 40-acre, state-of-the-art academic medical center that would create thousands of jobs for health care workers across Nassau County. In a statement to WSN, hospital spokesperson James Iorio said NYU Langone will continue to explore alternative locations for a new site on Long Island.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, despite our best efforts to work through a number of technical issues, we are unable to proceed with this specific location,\u201d Ioirio said. \u201cWe remain dedicated to the project as originally envisioned: One that would include a teaching hospital, medical education, and a research facility.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Iorio did not detail the specific reason for the project\u2019s termination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican who is running for reelection in November, said in a statement to Newsday that county officials and hospital administrators mutually agreed to pause the project due to \u201c<\/span>regulatory, technical, cost and timing<\/span><\/a>\u201d concerns. Kenneth Langone, the medical center\u2019s namesake, said it was \u201cjust too complicated\u201d to establish the facility on a campus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe considered all the things that had to be done and they\u2019re certainly manageable but there\u2019s a lot of moving parts,\u201d Langone told Newsday. \u201cWe just made a decision, \u2018we\u2019re going to cool it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Langone said he has spoken with other county officials and is scoping out other prospective sites. NYU Langone and NCC officials talked to Japanese medical equipment corporation Canon USA about <\/span>purchasing their office building<\/span><\/a> to create a 20-story hospital in Suffolk County. The hospital also looked into renovating a 72-acre vacant mall along Sunrise Highway in Nassau County.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Democratic lawmakers in the area have since raised questions about what caused the termination, claiming they were not included in the decision-making process. Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton sent a letter to Blakeman on Friday, demanding a hearing to review what specifically led to the initiative\u2019s pause. She said that since he and Langone, a Republican megadonor, first announced the project at NCC\u2019s 2023 graduation ceremony, other city officials rarely received updates on its progress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jerry Kornbluth, NCC\u2019s vice president for community and governmental relations, also told Newsday that the college was not informed of the project\u2019s termination until days before it was announced. Langone administrators had been set to visit the site March 24 \u2014 the same day its cancellation was publicized.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe really need to find out what happened and what the future plans or locations are if any,\u201d DeRiggi-Whitton said in an interview with Newsday. \u201cCounty Executive Blakeman spent two years parading around a $3 billion fantasy, and now that it\u2019s crashed and burned, he didn’t even have the decency to tell the college or the legislature it was dead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kornbluth said that architects had worked with the college to build the hospital in a location that minimizes disruption to campus operations, and that all parties seemed content with the plans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He said that while the medical center was \u201cnot a cheap proposition\u201d and required a new power facility, it \u201cdidn\u2019t seem insurmountable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The hospital was envisioned as a comprehensive facility <\/span>to address<\/span><\/a> Suffolk County\u2019s growing concerns around chronic illness, behavioral challenges and socioeconomic disparities by integrating a hospital, education institution and research center. Since affiliating with Long Island Community Hospital in May 2023, NYU Langone has expanded its advanced cancer and neurological treatment programs, drawing more than 4,000 new patients to the facility.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the past few years, NYU Langone has expanded its presence on Long Island with an <\/span>$11.5 million pediatric clinic<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>$6 million improvements to postpartum units<\/span><\/a> and a <\/span>260,000-square-foot ambulatory care center<\/span><\/a>. Most recently, it officially <\/span>merged with Long Island Community Hospital<\/span><\/a> to build the medical center’s seventh inpatient facility.<\/span><\/p>\n

Correction, April 11: A previous version of this article misstated the location of the planned hospital. It would have been in Nassau County, not Suffolk County. James Iorio’s last name was also spelled incorrectly on one of its references. The article has been updated and WSN regrets the errors.<\/em><\/p>\n

Contact Amanda Chen at achen@nyunews.com.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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