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Monroe Community Hospital will receive more than $10 million in state funds to upgrade and expand its ventilator units.
“This significant investment in Monroe Community Hospital reflects our ongoing commitment to providing the highest quality care for our residents,” says County Executive Adam Bello. “Expanding and modernizing our pediatric and ventilator units ensure that our residents receive the specialized services they need.”
“This grant is an extraordinary boost for MCH and the community we serve,” adds Alyssa Tallo, MCH executive health director.
The county-owned residential health care facility’s ventilator unit currently has 25 beds, five of which are for pediatric patients. Details on the number of additional beds were not disclosed. Along with increasing bed capacity and enhancing unit care, the funds will also be tapped for renovations to an outdoor playground used by the hospital.
The grant, totaling $10,175,000, was awarded through the Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program, which aims to expand access to inpatient, primary, behavioral health, and long-term care services across New York. Since 2017, the program has awarded more than $4.7 billion to providers.
For this round of funding, 55 recipients were listed with over $295 million in grant funding. Hospitals and diagnostic and treatment centers were the largest category of funded organizations, with at least 15 projects including some kind of long-term-care focus.
“I’m deeply grateful to our team for the dedication that makes progress like this possible, and to the state of New York for investing in our mission,” Tallo says.
Other awardees in the Finger Lakes region include Greece Pediatric Medicine PLLC, which received $259,234 for its Children’s Wellness Network. The money will be used as capital funding to establish a space to provide trauma-informed services.
Planned Parenthood of Central and Western NY is expected to get $2.4 million in grant money for debt retirement. The organization says this will allow it to preserve essential health care services for medically underserved communities. It serves an 18-county region with locations in Syracuse, Canandaigua, Rochester, Batavia, Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
Outside Monroe County, Wyoming County General Hospital was granted $14.8 million in funding. The money will be allocated toward capital improvements to upgrade infrastructure in the hospital’s operating room, pharmacy, and emergency departments.
Jacob Schermerhorn is a Rochester Beacon contributing writer and data journalist.
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