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KEN WRIGHT JEAN SHAFIROFF INTERVIEWS KEN WRIGHT, BOARD CHAIRMAN OF THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION By Jean Shafiroff en Wright, board chairman of the Southampton Hospital Association, talks to Jean Shafiroff, board member of the Southampton Hospital Association, about future building plans for Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and the Annual Summer Party.
What are the plans for building a new Stony Brook Southampton Hospital? This summer we will officially begin our campaign to build a state-of-the-art new hospital. Our current hospital building was constructed before the invention of penicillin and while we have renovated and updated it to deliver first class care, we need to create a new facility designed specifically to deliver the medicine of the future and to meet all the ever-evolving needs of our community. As the only hospital on the South Fork, the hospital takes care of everyone who lives and visits this part of Long Island.
Ken, as our Southampton Hospital Association board chairman, can you tell our readers what’s going on at the hospital? Our focus is to finish construction of the East Hampton emergency department and open this much-needed new facility in 2024. Ken Wright The majority of the funds were raised by our campaign committee led by Jim and Hollis Forbes and by residents in East Hampton and Montauk. Tragically, lives were Where will the new hospital be located? lost because people could not access emergency medicine The hospital will be moving just four miles west of its current quickly enough from these towns when medical emergencies location to the Stony Brook Southampton College campus. occurred. This new facility will undoubtedly save lives as well Fifteen acres were secured to build a new hospital as part of as improve the quality of life. We are incredibly grateful to the merger with Stony Brook Medicine. every individual who donated to make this possible. What will happen to the current building? What is the new East Hampton facility like? We are working with the village and town governments to find It is a beautifully designed, 22,000-square-foot building with a new way to use the property in the village for a vibrant and 10 patient rooms, fast-track access, cardiac monitoring in evappealing project which will benefit the local community. ery room, ophthalmology, Ob-Gyn, pediatric rooms, a full radiology department, resuscitation suite, pharmacy, and People in the Hamptons love parties. Will the hospital’s lab. It will also have an ambulance stationed outside ready to legendary Summer Party take place this year? transport patients to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and Yes, we are delighted to announce that the Annual Summer Stony Brook University Hospital when necessary. All of our Party will take place on Saturday, August 5, in Southampton. physicians will be board-certified in emergency medicine and Jean, as you well know, this is our biggest and most important will be part of the Stony Brook Medicine faculty. fundraiser of the year, and a highlight of the Hamptons season.
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