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Peconic Bay Medical Center Celebrates Groundbreaking of Corey Critical Care Pavilion

Contact: Lauren Jacobsen
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Photo Caption: Peconic Bay Medical Center breaks ground for the Corey Critical Care Pavilion to house the Kanas Regional Heart Center

Kanas Regional Heart Center to provide East End residents with advanced lifesaving services close to home

RIVERHEAD, NY – Northwell Health’s Peconic Bay Medical Center broke ground today to begin the two year construction project of the Corey Critical Care Pavilion. The centerpiece of the new $60-million Corey Critical Care Pavilion is a comprehensive cardiac care center, named the Kanas Regional Heart Center. The Heart Center will feature “cath labs,” the first facilities of their kind on the East End, and have the potential to save hundreds of lives each year.

240455ad03521cad616537504cdf6759_f15648.jpgThe new three-story Corey Critical Care Pavilion will be built over the existing emergency department, doubling its size. The tower will include a rooftop helipad, two ultra-modern operating cardiac cath suites, an electrophysiology suite, recovery rooms and an 18-bed Intensive Care/Cardiac Care Unit. An expert team of interventional cardiologists will be working with experienced Registered Nurses and staff in the cath labs. In anticipation of the expansion, as of February 2017, Peconic Bay Medical Center began operating as a Level III Trauma Center after earning provisional status from the NYS Department of Health. It is the only trauma and stroke center on the North Fork.

“The groundbreaking event for our new Corey Critical Care Pavilion, featuring the Kanas Regional Heart Center, is a fitting way to bring increased awareness to the opening of our new Cath Labs,” said Andrew J. Mitchell, President and CEO of Peconic Bay Medical Center. “It is a very visible fulfillment of our promise to bring a higher standard of medical services to the East End.”

“Cath Labs” are used to perform interventional cardiology procedures such as stenting and balloon angioplasty, which are advanced-technology techniques designed to open blocked coronary arteries, the blood vessels that carry oxygen and vital nutrients to the heart. Blockages that last more than a few moments can result in heart attacks and death.  Electrophysiology labs are used to diagnose and treat heart arrhythmias. The Cath Labs at Peconic Bay Medical Center will provide local access to this life-saving resource for nearly a quarter of a million residents of Long Island’s East End.

 “Our community has long needed the kind of services we will now be able to provide through this comprehensive Corey Critical Care Pavilion,” said Sherry Patterson, chair of the Peconic Bay Medical Center and a long-time advocate for the cardiac catheterization facility. “We are grateful for the support of so many generous members of the community in helping us fund this project. Their dreams and ours are about to become a reality.”

Stanley Katz, MD, chair of cardiology and chief of interventional cardiology at Peconic Bay Medical Center, has been instrumental in the planning and design of the new cath labs.  The long-time senior vice president, executive director and chair of Northwell Health’s cardiology services has helped develop a vast network that resulted in providing world-class cardiology care across our region.  Dr. Katz will now be focused on expanding the Northwell Health cardiology services on the East End.

Since joining together in January of 2016, Northwell Health has moved rapidly to make Peconic Bay Medical Center the regional medical center for the East End. “We’re putting the very best in cardiac care in place right here at Peconic Bay Medical Center, as well as quality stroke and trauma services,” said Northwell Health President & CEO Michael Dowling. “Enhancing programs at PBMC is central to Northwell Health’s mission to give Suffolk residents easier access to high-quality care. We’ve already expanded ambulatory services throughout the county. PBMC anchors this growth, helping to meet the community’s health care needs now and in the future.”

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About Peconic Bay Medical Center

Located in Riverhead, NY, Peconic Bay Medical Center is a non-profit hospital committed to providing exceptional care and improving the health of the communities it serves. Peconic Bay Medical Center offers wide-ranging, full-scope services and programs along with state-of-art technology. Peconic Bay Medical Center joined Northwell Health (formerly North Shore-LIJ), in 2016. For more information, visit PBMCHealth.org.

About Northwell Health

Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 21 hospitals and over 550 outpatient facilities. We care for more than two million people annually in the metro New York area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 61,000 employees – 15,000+ nurses and nearly 3,400 physicians, including nearly 2,700 dedicated members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institute. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and the School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. And we offer health insurance through CareConnect. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu.