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St. Mary’s expansion now complete
Bayside facility’s new respiratory care center will help aid ‘more children than ever’
St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children held a ribbon-cutting ceremony announcing the completion
of its new Center for Pediatric Respiratory care. Photo by Carlotta Mohamed
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
St. Mary’s Healthcare
System for Children held
a ribbon-cutting ceremony
to celebrate the completion
of its new Center for
Pediatric Respiratory
care, a 22,300-square-foot
expansion of the hospital’s
pediatric facilities.
St. Mary’s President and
CEO Dr. Edwin Simpser was
joined by Cindy Johnson,
Norman Feinberg, Attilio
and Beverly Petrocelli, and
the Kids for Kids Foundation,
whose generosity was
instrumental in the
completion of the project at
the hospital, located at 29-01
216th St. in Bayside.
“Today marks a historic
moment in the history of
our hospital,” Simpser said
at the March 4 ceremony.
“Expanding the number of
ventilator-equipped beds
will allow us to care for more
children than ever, helping
us fulfill our mission of
serving New York’s most
critically ill and injured
extraordinary project into
beds will be in multiple twobedded
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children. We’re so deeply
a reality.”
patient rooms, which
Medically Fragile Children,
grateful to the Johnson
The capital project
provide comfortable space
nearly 100 of New York’s
family, Norman Feinberg,
transformed 22,300 square
for children’s accessibility,
children who require
the Petrocelli family and the
feet of administrative space
equipment needs, family
ventilator-equipped beds
Kids for Kids Foundation
into a state-of-the-art facility.
visits and privacy.
are forced to seek care out of
for their work making this
The 27 ventilator-equipped
According to the Medicaid
state due to high demand. St.
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Mary’s — the only pediatric
post-acute care facility in
New York City — was already
operating at 100 percent
capacity. The expansion will
allow the hospital to meet the
growing need for pediatric
respiratory care.
The renovation has
included a new Great
Room, a communal space
for recreation, education,
visitation and dining. The
transformation will provide
home-like amenities that put
patients into a total-healing
environment.
“In times of struggle,
the proper support and
facilities are crucial to
help sick children and their
families. That’s why we
were so thrilled to support
the new expansion at St.
Mary’s Healthcare System
for Children,” said Robert
Catalano, founder and
board chair of the Kids for
Kids Foundation. “We look
forward to continuing our
work with St. Mary’s to
provide care and support for
any child who needs it.”
Reach reporter Carlotta
Mohamed by e-mail at
cmohamed@schnepsmedia.
com or by phone at (718) 260–
4526.
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