NYU Langone plans Melville hospital as part of massive LI expansion (original) (raw)

After adding hospitals in Mineola and Patchogue, NYU Langone Health plans to build a new medical center in Melville as part of a vast expansion to make the Manhattan-based system an even more major Long Island force.

The Melville campus, which needs to obtain a wide range of approvals, would include more than 500 private inpatient rooms, 70 emergency department spaces for patients, and operating and procedure suites with diagnostic imaging capabilities.

“This is one of the most ambitious and exciting projects ever undertaken by NYU Langone,” NYU Langone CEO Dr. Alec Kimmelman said in a written statement. He referred to “benefits to Long Island—a community I grew up in” where the hospital would “allow us to better serve patients across Nassau and Suffolk.”

This would be the first new hospital built on Long Island since 1980, when Stony Brook University Hospital began accepting patients, although its five years of construction ended in 1978.

The multibillion-dollar project, at the border of Nassau and Suffolk counties, would be built on the 45-acre Huntington Quadrangle property that the system said it acquired on May 21 for $135.5 million.

NYU Langone also plans to move its tuition-free NYU Grossman-Long Island School of Medicine from Mineola to Melville.

Construction is expected to create up to 8,000 union construction jobs and result in thousands of permanent jobs upon opening.

Dr. Kimmelman said construction will provide a “modern facility that offers the latest technologies.”

Fiona B. Druckenmiller, chair of NYU Langone’s Board of Trustees, said this follows the “addition of NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk to our system last year.”

“With these plans for Melville, I can think of no better way to continue to fulfill our trifold mission — to care, teach, and discover — here on Long Island,” she added of the academic medical center.

This marks a major medical move and a major medical moment, as well as movement, in a kind of merging of markets, after the addition to NYU Langone Hospital — Long Island, a 591-bed hospital in Mineola, and then NYU Langone Hospital — Suffolk in Patchogue.

“As a lifelong Long Islander, I couldn’t be more proud to see NYU Langone continue investing in this remarkable community,” Ken Langone, The Home Depot co-founder and chair emeritus of NYU Langone’s Board of Trustees, said of what he called a “transformative academic medical center.”

New York City-based providers have been expanding on Long Island, including Mount Sinai which took over South Nassau Communities Hospital, after a kind of détente in which providers stayed close to home ended.

Northwell Health took over Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, while expanding in New York City, taking over and investing in Lenox Hill Hospital and beyond in what amounts to a merging of medical markets.

Catholic Health operates six hospitals across Long Island, including three in Nassau and three in Suffolk. It operates St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center in Roslyn; Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre and St. Joseph Hospital in Bethpage. And Catholic Health in Suffolk operates Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip, St. Catherine of Siena Hospital in Smithtown, and St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson.

NYU Langone may have “NY” in its name, but “LI” is now a big part of its mandate, mission and revenue at a time when stand-alone hospitals have found it hard to survive, instead merging with systems.

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It includes seven hospitals and would grow to eight, including three or nearly half on Long Island, and over 320 outpatient locations across New York and Florida, along with more than 120 physician practices on Long Island.

NYU Langone and Winthrop University Hospital completed a merger of assets in 2019, and in 2020, the hospital was renamed NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island with a new annex to the emergency department opening in December, 2024.

NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk in Patchogue, formerly Brookhaven Memorial Hospital and then Long Island Community Hospital, in 2025 became the seventh and most recent hospital to join the system.

“This is a tremendous victory for Long Island,” Suffolk County Executive Edward Romaine said of the Melville project at a time when Melville itself is expanding. “There could be no better news for Melville.”

The project requires state and local approvals and an environmental impact study before construction could begin, making it difficult to give a timeline.

NYU Langone said it will “work closely” with Huntington town officials to make sure the new medical center fits in well with the town’s vision for the Melville Town Center.

“We look forward to the next steps in this process and hearing NYU Langone’s plans over the coming weeks,” Huntington Town Supervisor Ed Smyth said in a written statement.

NYU Langone said it will expand emergency and other “key specialty clinical services” in Mineola, including cancer, cardiology, and neurology.

The system said 40% of the NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine’s recent graduating class will remain on Long Island.

NYU Langone includes 2,358 system-wide beds, 191 operating rooms, 417,225 annual ER visits and 12.3 million outpatient visits. It employs 54,000, including 13,000 on Long Island, 6,110 physicians and faculty and 10,413 nurses.

Its Nassau County footprint includes dozens of practices, such as the NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Garden City, which opened at 1111 Franklin Avenue in 2024 with 32 clinical specialties in a 260,000-square-foot space.

NYU Langone recently purchased the building at 1200 Franklin Avenue, across the street, with plans to develop another multispecialty ambulatory center in a former Lord & Taylor building.

“We are committed to working with local officials, hearing from the community, and continuing to grow our presence all across the island,” Dr. Kimmelman said.

Druckenmiller said the system has more “than 120 physician practices and more coming online soon” on Long Island.

NYU Langone since 2007 has expanded its footprint in the New York City region by 376%, occupying 14.4 million square feet.

NYU Langone said it expects to open new ambulatory surgery centers in Patchogue and Manhasset later this year.

“We’re always looking to bring access to care to everybody across the island,” NYU Langone spokesman James Iorio said.