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care rooms and larger operating rooms. The operating rooms will include two da Vinci Surgical System surgical robots, allowing for robotic surgery in urological, gynecological, colorectal, and gastrointestinal procedures.
Other features include a 300-seat conference center, a 240-seat café with outdoor veranda, a bus stop, and a rooftop helipad.
Currently, Vassar Brothers brings $247 million in economic activity to Dutchess County and the Hudson Valley region. It employs 2,000 people in Poughkeepsie; that number is expected to increase with the new pavilion and added services. It’s a Level II Trauma Center and has a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for premature and critically ill infants.
The hospital is also home to the only cardiothoracic surgery center between Albany and Westchester County. Surgeons regularly perform coronary artery bypass grafting and valve surgery, ventricular reconstruction, and minimally invasive heart surgery and lung cancer surgery, among other procedures. The surgery center has state-of-the-art equipment and 24-hour urgent care for cardiac patients.
“Our CT program is among the best in the state from a quality standpoint,” says
Friedberg. “We’re able to take care of patients with signi cant cardiac issues, not only in a compassionate way, but with high standards of outcome.”
The combination of award-winning programs and a new pavilion gives Vassar Brothers an advantage when recruiting physicians and care workers. That will lead to new programs, which will lead to more jobs.
“As we build programs—all of the di erent programs that require investments in tech, space, and people—I have to have the space to do it,” says Friedberg. “And this gives us the ability to expand. It’s going to drive more activities on campus. That’s going to drive the economic side of it and jobs.”
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL,
GLOBAL ADVANCES
As Vassar Brothers enters a new era, Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck—also part of the Health Quest family—has expanded its campus with its own new pavilion.
In 2016, Northern Dutchess opened its $47 million Martin and Toni Sosno Pavilion. At three stories, and attached to the original hospital building, it o ers a comfortable environment for patient care, with state-of-the art technology.
Highlights include 40 private patient
Cutting-edge surgical technology is important to Dutchess County's health providers. Vassar Brothers, Northern Dutchess Hospital and MidHudson Regional Hospital all use the da Vinci surgical system for several procedures.
rooms with an integrated monitoring system and added space for guests, who can now stay 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The pavilion also has a new surgery department with six advanced operating suites, 15 preparation bays, and seven postanesthesia recovery bays, plus sophisticated ventilation systems and high-de nition imaging. A da Vinci Surgical System surgical robot is also part of the new department.
“With the opening of the building we started robotic surgery,” says Denise George, president of Northern Dutchess Hospital. “Patients are reaping the bene ts of very high-tech procedures in a small community hospital.”
The expansion has allowed Northern Dutchess to modernize its original pavilion. Chie y, responding to a 30-percent increase in volume from 2013 to 2015, the hospital in 2016 unveiled its expanded emergency department.
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