NYU Langone opens new ambulatory center in Commack
The 18,000-square-foot new NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Commack offers multiple specialties. Credit: NYU Langone
NYU Langone has opened a new ambulatory center in Commack, joining a trend of recent multispecialty openings by other major health care networks on Long Island.
The 18,000-square-foot NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Commack at 167 Veterans Memorial Hwy. opened Sept. 18 and offers family medicine, cardiology, orthopedics, plastic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, colorectal surgery, urology, dermatology and endocrinology services.
It has 30 exam rooms, including a procedure room, on-site stress echocardiogram testing and X-ray capabilities.
“Our latest multispecialty practice in Commack enables patients to see multiple doctors in a single visit, with each provider connected seamlessly by our electronic health record,” said Andrew Rubin, senior vice president for clinical affairs and ambulatory care at NYU Langone, in a statement to Newsday.
The new ambulatory center is open Monday through Friday by appointment.
The hospital said in a news release that this is the sixth ambulatory center NYU Langone has opened on Long Island this year.
Experts have previously told Newsday that ambulatory centers are driven by advances in technology and reduce the volume of ER visits.
"Any new facilities are helpful as long as a patient can get there," said Ilene Corina, president of Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy.
Some recent ambulatory centers include Catholic Health's facility in East Hills, Stony Brook's Advanced Specialty Care at Lake Grove, NYU Langone's facility in Garden City and Mount Sinai's multispecialty center in Wantagh.
Newsday reported in May that NYU Langone is also planning a major update to its Patchogue hospital, NYU Langone — Suffolk. The former Long Island Community Hospital, which completed its merger with NYU Langone earlier this year, will receive a $650 million expansion in the form of a "bed tower" that will have room for 144 private beds. The tower will centralize nursing on several floors and provide better spaces for the pharmacy, physical therapy and other support services, the hospital told Newsday in May.
