Latest Modernization Update
Message from Good Samaritan Hospital President Ruth E. Hennessey
Dear Neighbors,
Progress on the Patient Care Pavilion continues and we would like to keep you abreast of the latest developments:
On Wednesday, August 31 at 7:00 am, the contractor will be performing test holes located between Good Samaritan Hospital and St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School. This work will assist in locating an existing sewer line that will be required for the upcoming Patient Care Pavilion. During this brief time period, Beach Drive will become one lane. Work is anticipated to last eight hours.
Flag personnel will be on hand to help direct the traffic flow and assist in controlling any congestion during dismissal hours at St. John the Baptist. Please be assured, there will be uninterrupted access for any emergency vehicles at this time, including ambulances.
Please remember, the team at Good Samaritan is here to assist you during this transitional period. If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to Director of Public & Community Relations Justin Jaycon at (631) 376-4104 or justin.jaycon@chsli.org.
I would like to again thank you for your support of Good Samaritan Hospital, Our Lady of Consolation and the Patient Care Pavilion Project. As the summer progresses, we will continue to be to provide you with the latest milestones related to ongoing projects.
With gratitude,
Ruth E. Hennessey
President, Good Samaritan Hospital
Enhanced Emergency Department Services
Catholic Health Chair of Emergency Medicine Christopher Raio, MD, discusses future plans for the Good Samaritan Hospital Emergency Department.
Our Expansion Plans
Services & Programs
Good Samaritan Hospital’s service area includes the communities on the western portion of the south shore of Suffolk County, and largely, Suffolk County as a whole. Our vision is to continue to provide the highest level of health care, offer the communities on the south shore of Long Island high-quality programs and services, and realign to become an increasingly resilient facility.
Our community's health needs are changing and patients expect cutting-edge services and private space. Good Samaritan Hospital has recently added a number of new, advanced services and technology, such as the Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Center of Long Island and an expanded interventional cardiology and radiology suite. Future plans include more state-of-the-art technologies and environments that will attract high quality physicians and surgeons to the community.
Although the overall population will only grow about 2.3% from 2017 to 2027, the 65 and over age bracket is projected to grow by nearly 26%, which is significant. This is an indicator that the services mentioned are critical and will be much-needed to care for the residents of Suffolk County. Expanding and enhancing the facility now and having state-of-the-art technology and services will enable Good Samaritan Hospital to care for our community well into the future.
Emergency Department
Good Samaritan Hospital's Emergency Department is often the first point of contact for both adults and children throughout Suffolk County in need of health care, seeing nearly 80,000 patients a year. With an unmatched level of services, including the only Verified Level 2 Trauma Center for both adults and pediatrics on the south shore of Long Island, it is not surprising that this volume represents the second highest amount of emergency department visits in Suffolk County. With such a high demand for emergency services, Good Samaritan Hospital's surrounding community and our health care professionals deserve the best medical experience possible.
A need existed to immediately enhance our Emergency Department, creating a completely separate experience for pediatric patients and their families, and eventually, providing a larger state-of-the-art facility. A redesign of the Emergency Department's waiting and triage areas has already allowed for better patient flow. The opening of the new Pediatric Emergency Department has provided a more distinct separation between the pediatric and adult waiting and treatment areas. Emergency treatment bays will be developed to alleviate overcrowding and provide a safe and secure environment for patients and their families. This enhanced Emergency Department will act as a bridge to a larger modernization project—the Patient Care Pavilion.
To better shape the future of health care, Good Samaritan Hospital has developed plans for a Patient Care Pavilion providing health care solutions for the growing population on the south shore of Long Island. This option was based off of data from a number of different sources, including a needs assessment that also identified many challenges related to the current campus facility, a long-term and capacity analysis report from Kaufman Hall (a third party consultant specializing in health care) conceptualizing how a future health care facility should be structured, overall facility priorities, community needs and the current costs for construction.
The total number of beds provided by Good Samaritan Hospital will not increase. Instead, it will remain at 437 and stay current with the advancements in medical technology, insuring a wide variety of benefits to south shore residents.
Learn more about the current and future state of Good Samaritan
The Patient Care Pavilion will be a new six-story addition with construction beginning at a time to-be-determined between now and 2022 that will include:
- An enhanced emergency department, allowing Good Samaritan Hospital to care for the nearly 80,000 visits by local community residents every year—consistently the second highest in Suffolk County
- A larger surgical suite, which will include an additional 16 operating rooms, a new perioperative area and sterile processing and support—required due to the continued move toward more minimally invasive and outpatient surgical procedures
- A private medical surgical unit featuring 36 single patient rooms with the ability to renovate additional floors to increase the number of private rooms to 120.
Many initial steps have been taken to assist in the development of the Patient Care Pavilion, including:
- Parking and traffic studies
- Length of Stay reductions and the development of a central command center to assist with patient flow
- Conversations with the Town of Islip on overall needs of the community
- Conversations with local resident organizations throughout West Islip for feedback
Ruth Hennessey, President
John McMurray, Chief Operating Officer
Joseph Loiacono, Senior Vice President of Planning & Development
Justin Jaycon, Director of Public & Community Relations
Enhanced Surgical Services
Catholic Health chairman of neurointerventional services Kimon Bekelis, MD, discusses how the Patient Care Pavilion will enhance surgical services.
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