$25 Million New York State Department of Health HEAL 11 Grant Awarded to SVCMC and NYU Langone Medical Center
09/25/2009
Contact: Michael Fagan
(212) 604-7965
-- Grant Funds Collaboration Initiatives Between The Two Institutions --
New York, NY – September 25, 2009 – The New York State Department of Health announced today that Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers (Saint Vincent’s) as the lead applicant, and NYU Langone Medical Center, as the co-applicant, have received an award of $25 million under the Health Care Efficiency and Affordability Law for New Yorkers (HEAL NY) Phase 11. The award will be used by Saint Vincent’s and NYU Langone Medical Center to build a strategic relationship to share certain services and more efficiently meet the healthcare needs of the neighborhoods below 42nd Street.
“We are very pleased that the Department of Health made this significant award to Saint Vincent’s and NYU Langone Medical Center to allow us to collaborate to meet the needs of patients in Downtown Manhattan,” said Henry Amoroso, president and CEO of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers. “It shows that our efforts are very consistent with the state’s goals for providers to work together to appropriately meet community need, right-size health care services, and align resources effectively.”
“We are excited about the opportunity that this grant will provide and want to thank the Governor for his support,” said Robert I. Grossman, MD, dean & CEO of NYU Langone Medical Center. “This grant will allow our two institutions to achieve important clinical synergies that will improve the quality of care delivered to the community and also serve as a critical first step towards rationalizing health care in the lower half of Manhattan.”
The relationship is based on the complementary nature of the two institutions: St. Vincent’s, -- a well-respected teaching hospital and NYU Langone, -- an academic medical center focused on advanced quaternary care. The components of the clinical collaboration included in the HEAL 11 grant award involves four services: psychiatry, pediatrics, cardiothoracic surgery/cardiology and inpatient rehabilitation.
Clinical integration will be based on the rationalizing of certain services at each institution and the sharing of services such as (but not limited to): quality measures, standardization, clinical outcomes and connectivity (based on a common IT platform). The collaboration will result in significant operating efficiencies and enhanced access to outpatient services at both institutions.
A coordinating committee has been formed with leadership from both organizations to oversee the development of implementation plans pursuant to the grant; the grant provides for a two-year phased implementation of the proposed clinical collaborations.
Saint Vincent’s
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers (Saint Vincent’s) is anchored by St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan, an academic medical center located in Greenwich Village, St. Vincent’s Westchester, a behavioral health hospital in Westchester County, and continuing care services that include two skilled nursing facilities in Brooklyn, another on Staten Island, a hospice, and a home health agency serving the Metropolitan New York area. Its behavioral health services also provide supportive housing programs for people with mental illness throughout the Metropolitan area. Saint Vincent’s is the designated provider for the New York and New Jersey region of the US Family Health Plan sponsored by the US Department of Defense.
Saint Vincent’s serves as the academic medical center of New York Medical College in New York City. The healthcare organization is sponsored by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn and the president of the Sisters of Charity of New York.
