NYU Langone Health announced that it plans to build an academic medical center in the Long Island hamlet of Melville, part of the Town of Huntington, N.Y., near the border of Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
NYU Langone's rendering of the proposed facility.
The medical center’s campus will include a hospital with more than 500 inpatient beds, 70 emergency department bays, and “advanced operating and procedure suites with the latest diagnostic imaging capabilities.” Also on site will be the tuition-free NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine and scientific research space. The health system adds that “a significant ambulatory footprint around the new campus will further enhance access to comprehensive outpatient care.”
NYU Langone said the multiyear project, subject to “extensive” state and local approvals, will create 8,000 union-represented construction jobs on Long Island, with an “additional 2,500 indirect jobs across the region.” Upon the campus’ opening, it said the medical center will bring “thousands of permanent jobs” to the region. Its CEO and Dean Alec C. Kimmelman, MD, PhD, called the project “one of the most ambitious and exciting projects ever undertaken by NYU Langone.”
NYU Langone stated it that will work closely with Huntington town officials to “align plans for the new medical center with their vision for the Melville Town Center.”
