Construction of a $291 million facility in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is near. The Buffalo City Council yesterday approved the sale of a stretch of Goodrich Street, from Ellicott Street to Michigan Avenue, to Kaleida Health.
The acquisition will help facilitate better patient access for the organization's new Global Vascular Institute, which will be built north of Buffalo General Hospital. The ten-story building will house Kaleida Health's merged cardiac, stroke, and vascular operations plus an expanded emergency room. The merging comes after the order of the closure of Millard Filmore Gates Circle Hospital, which is scheduled to shutter its doors within the next few years. The new building will also house research facilities, including the University of Buffalo's $118 million clinical translational research center on four of the tower's floors.
The $291 million facility will be connected to Buffalo General Hospital across Goodrich Street. Pre-construction site work is underway as the buildings that once housed Buffalo General's community mental health clinics have been demolished.
When complete, the combined buildings will house nearly 600 beds, 30 operating rooms, 17 interventional labs for cardiac, vascular and neurosurgical procedures as well as four CT and four MRI's. It is anticipated that the new two-story emergency department will treat over 60,000 patients annually.
In early June, Kaleida Health received two key approvals to build the Global Vascular Institute. The New York State Department of Health's Hospital Review and Planning Council approved Kaleida Health's final certificate of need (CON) for the 10-story structure and the City of Buffalo's Planning Board unanimously approved the site plan for the project.
The project is one of four new buildings that will be going up in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) within the next few years.
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This is great news.