Healthy City: Inside New York City's Hospital Building Boom

Conclusion

NewYork-Presbyterian — David H. Koch Center

By making robust investments in improving and expanding their facilities, New York City's hospitals are successfully adapting to a competitive and changing healthcare marketplace.

In order for hospitals to remain flexible and responsive to continuing competitive pressures and changes in service delivery, the Building Congress recommends the following policy measures:

• The City should consider revised zoning for Manhattan's East Side healthcare corridor to allow institutions to have predictable building guidelines that account for the complex design challenges for hospitals building on constrained footprints.
• The City should consider zoning to encourage investment in outer- borough, community-based primary healthcare services and improvement of smaller, aging hospitals.
• The City should increase capital support for NYC Health + Hospitals to allow it to continue to make improvements to aging facilities and expand access to primary and other vital public health services.
• Hospitals should recruit and train qualified construction and facilities management professionals to ensure projects are delivered and maintained efficiently and cost-effectively, particularly at a time of increased investment.
• Institutions should continue to adopt collaborative project management practices, like integrated project delivery, in order to streamline construction work and reduce overall construction costs.