NYU Langone Health plans to build Long Island\u2019s first new hospital since 1980, spending billions of dollars on a more than 1 million-square-foot academic medical center in Melville.<\/p>\n
The project, at 1 and\u00a02 Huntington Quadrangle, includes an approximately 500-bed hospital, emergency department, ambulatory services and research laboratories, said Dr. Alec C. Kimmelman, CEO of the health system and dean of its NYU Grossman School of Medicine.<\/p>\n
The medical school would also move from Mineola to the Melville campus, and NYU Langone would add housing for its students and employees.<\/p>\n
The plan would significantly alter one of Long Island\u2019s most important commercial corridors along Route 110, while shifting the health system\u2019s operations away from Mineola, where NYU Langone’s presence has contributed to the village’s\u00a0revitalization<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n WHAT NEWSDAY FOUNDThe first new hospital on Long Island in nearly 50 years has been proposed for Melville by NYU Langone Health.The 500-plus bed hospital would be part of an academic medical center on 45 acres where two Huntington Quadrangle office buildings now sit, officials told Newsday.The center will cause the health system to reduce the number of inpatient beds at its Mineola hospital and also expand ambulatory and emergency services there.<\/p>\n The plan also comes as\u00a0competing health systems expand their offerings to Long Island patients.<\/p>\n NYU Langone will need multiple state and local government approvals to move forward, including from the state Department of Health and the Town of Huntington.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to be able to build something [in Melville] that I don’t think we would have been able to build in Nassau,\u201d Kimmelman told Newsday on Monday. \u201cWe want to have a state-of-the-art hospital of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Kimmelman said NYU Langone Hospital \u2014 Long Island in Mineola, formerly Winthrop University Hospital, would remain open but have fewer inpatient beds. He said it was too soon to know how many beds would remain.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, the health system intends to invest there in expanded specialty areas, such as cancer, cardiology and neurology as well as emergency services at the Mineola hospital, which opened in 1896\u00a0as Nassau Hospital.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will change what is there. \u2026 But we\u2019re going to continue to have a significant presence in Mineola,\u201d said Kimmelman, who grew up in East Meadow.<\/p>\n He noted that NYU Langone recently purchased 1200 Franklin Ave. in Garden City, a former Lord & Taylor department store, for a\u00a0multispecialty ambulatory center. That follows the opening<\/a> of a 260,000-square-foot outpatient center in the former Sears building nearby in 2024.<\/p>\n The health system also plans to renovate the Perlmutter Cancer Center at 120 Mineola Blvd. in Mineola.<\/p>\n Competition for patients<\/p>\n The Melville hospital, which would\u00a0sit on 45 acres, would represent more competition for patients, particularly with Northwell Health, the state\u2019s largest private health system.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Island has 23 hospitals, including 12 in Suffolk County. The\u00a0proposed site of the new NYU Langone hospital is about 4 miles from Northwell Health\u2019s Plainview Hospital, 7 miles from Northwell\u2019s Syosset Hospital and 8 miles from Northwell\u2019s Huntington Hospital.<\/p>\n Northwell and NYU Langone have clashed<\/a> over their quest to attract patients, including in a 2024 lawsuit in which NYU Langone alleged Northwell had used NYU\u2019s \u201cdistinct purple color\u201d in its ads to confuse patients.\u00a0<\/p>\n Asked about the need for the first new hospital on Long Island in nearly 50 years,\u00a0Kimmelman said:\u00a0\u201cThere’s definitely a need. We think that there are a lot of patients who are really interested in the highest-quality product.\u201d<\/p>\n Given the necessary government approvals, he declined to give a potential date for the hospital’s opening.<\/p>\n NYU Langone paid $135.5 million for the Quadrangle buildings\u00a0in a deal that closed on May 21, health system officials said.\u00a0The facilities have been run by property manager The We\u2019re Group.<\/p>\n Kimmelman said\u00a0the location is ideal because it straddles\u00a0Nassau and Suffolk, “and Melville has been really trying to invest in a town center, and we think this dovetails perfectly.\u201d<\/p>\n NYU Langone plans to demolish 1 Huntington Quadrangle to make way for the new hospital, while 2 Huntington Quadrangle would be used for offices.\u00a0The exact height of the hospital has yet to be determined, said Vicki Match Suna, the health system\u2019s executive vice president and vice dean of real estate development and facilities.<\/p>\n She said the Melville site offers plenty of room for expansion and is part of the Melville Town Center redevelopment plan for a walkable neighborhood with housing, restaurants and shops.<\/p>\n Choosing Melville<\/p>\n For the medical center to be built, Huntington Town would need to rezone the property, NYU Langone officials said, adding there are no plans to seek tax breaks or other aid from the state or Suffolk County. <\/p>\n Huntington Town Supervisor Ed Smyth told Newsday last month<\/a> that he supports the project.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a project of a scale that you can\u2019t overstate the positive economic impact it would have for the region,” he said.<\/p>\n NYU Langone officials estimated the medical center would create thousands of permanent jobs and up to 8,000 construction workers would build the complex.<\/p>\n Suffolk Executive Edward P. Romaine told Newsday last month that the medical center would be \u201ca game changer\u201d for the local economy and healthcare.<\/p>\n NYU Langone had considered other locations before choosing Melville.<\/p>\n Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman announced in 2023<\/a> that NYU Langone planned to open a teaching hospital on the campus of Nassau Community College in Uniondale.<\/p>\n