NYU Langone Health is slated for another expansion, proposing an $83 million project to grow its emergency department in Kips Bay, according to an application filed with the New York State Department of Health.
If approved, the expansion would create an additional 29 emergency room bays and five operating rooms at NYU Langone’s main campus, made up of Tisch Hospital and Kimmel Pavilion. The expansion follows a 26% increase in emergency room patients between 2022 and 2024, according to the Sept. 3 application.
“Year-over-year patient volume growth has driven a rising demand for expanded surgical services and capacity,” the hospital filing reads. “The addition of five ORs will help NYULH improve surgical access for New York residents while keeping patients close to home.”
The new ER bays will include a mix of private observation rooms and two-bed curtained bays, as well as some airborne infection isolation rooms. The operating rooms will support imaging technologies for advanced surgical procedures such as transplants.
NYU Langone recorded over 122,000 ER visits during the 2025 fiscal year — up from 91,000 visits during 2022. Steve Ritea, a spokesperson for NYU Langone, attributed the uptick in patients to the medical center’s growing presence across the five boroughs and beyond.
“This is in part because NYU Langone has increased awareness of the exceptional, top-quality care that we offer across our entire system, which includes more than 320 outpatient locations across the region,” Ritea said in a statement to WSN.
NYU Langone has spent millions expanding its services throughout the New York City metropolitan area and West Palm Beach, Florida, which now has four locations. The medical center has recently focused on expanding its services in Long Island — including a $11.5 million pediatric care clinic and a merger with Long Island Community Hospital to create NYU Langone’s seventh inpatient facility — but canceled plans to build a $3 billion hospital in Nassau County in April.
Initial plans for the Kips Bay expansion began in 2022 — before the closure of Mount Sinai’s Beth Israel hospital in the East Village. Dr. Fritz François, NYU’s executive vice president and chief of hospital operations, told Crain’s New York that the closure “catalyzed” the need for increased capacity.
NYU Langone reported $14.2 billion in operating revenue during the 2024 fiscal year, citing the increased emergency room visits as a contributing factor. If approved, the expansion is expected to be completed in 2027.
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