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Wyckoff Heights plans outpatient facility in Glendale
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@ROBBPOZ
Wyckoff Heights Medical
Center has its sights set on
transforming a former auto
body garage in Glendale into a modern
outpatient medical facility.
The hospital on the Ridgewood/
Bushwick border in Brooklyn is planning
to transform 64-25 Central Ave.,
formerly Central Auto Collision, into a
two-story “ambulatory diagnostic and
treatment facility” serving local residents,
according to Community Board
5 District Manager Gary Giordano.
In reviewing the plans, Giordano
told QNS that the hospital plans to
create an indoor parking garage on
the fi rst fl oor with examination rooms
and a patient waiting room on the
second fl oor. The building’s footprint
wouldn’t change, but the second fl oor
addition would bring its total height
up to 30 feet.
Nonetheless, Giordano noted, Wyckoff
Heights representatives submitted
an application to the city’s Board of
Standards and Appeals (BSA) asking
for a special permit to allow for a
parking garage with fewer spots than
required under current zoning rules.
Plans call for the fi rst-fl oor garage to
have 21 parking spaces, but the existing
rules call for twice as many spots
given the size of the building, which is
about 12,600 square feet.
The proposed facility in Glendale
would be similar to two
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other outpatient centers that Wyckoff
Heights operates in Bushwick and Middle
Village, according to Community
Board 5 Chairperson Vincent Arcuri,
who also serves on the hospital’s board
of trustees. Those facilities off er an
array of services from care providers
based at Wyckoff .
“We have a vast population in Glendale
and neighboring Ridgewood,
with a high number of senior citizens
living within walking distance” of
the proposed facility, Arcuri said.
The site is a short walk from bus lines
on both Myrtle Avenue and Fresh
Pond Road.
Along with better serving the needs
of a growing population, the outpatient
center is also an economic shot
in the arm for Wyckoff Hospital.
“Outpatient services are reimbursed
at a better rate than in-hospital
services,” Arcuri said. As with
most other community hospitals in
the city and state, he observed, most
of the patients coming directly to
Wyckoff Hospital for treatment are
covered by Medicare or Medicaid —
public programs that have been cut
on the state level in recent years and
may also be subject to further reductions
on the federal level.
“The object is to get out where the insured
people are, where the payments
are better,” he added. “And you don’t
want people coming to the hospital
who aren’t really sick.”
Board 5 will hold a public hearing
on the topic on Wednesday, July 12. See
Page 8 for details about the meeting.
Photo via Google Maps
A November 2016 photo of 64-25 Central Ave. in Glendale, where
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is planning to construct an outpatient
facility.
