White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital plans to construct a nine-story, 216,000-square-foot ambulatory care and physician office facility, according to westfaironline.com
The proposed outpatient facility would reserve five stories for diagnostic and testing services and four stories for physician offices. The building would be adjacent to the hospital's cancer care center.
In addition, outpatient services currently within the main hospital would be relocated to the new building. Services that would be moved include ambulatory surgery, interventional radiology, endoscopy and maternal fetal medicine.
Adding physician offices close to the main hospital follows a national trend, according to William Null, an attorney with Cuddy & Feder and member of the hospital's executive committee.
"A lot of different hospitals in the region and throughout the country are building hospital office buildings to bring their physicians onto campus," Mr. Null told the White Plain Common Council, according to westfaironline.com. "It's much more efficient."
The project still needs site plan approval from the council.