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Catholic Health’s Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip broke ground on a $500 million, 300,000-square-foot patient care pavilion Wednesday. The project is scheduled for completion in early 2025.

The facility will feature a 75-bay emergency department, 16 high-tech replacement operating rooms and three floors of private patient rooms. Enhancing patient privacy, the new building will feature larger and enhanced clinical areas and closer access within the hospital to key services.

The groundbreaking featured hospital and elected officials as well as supporters from the community.

“Catholic Health continues to make investments in its hospitals to transform our facilities into state of the art centers for healing” President and CEO Dr. Patrick O’Shaughnessy said in a statement.

“Our strategic objective is to become the most trusted health care system on Long Island. Today’s groundbreaking of the Patient Care Pavilion at Good Samaritan Hospital is one more step toward that ultimate goal; the founding Daughters of Wisdom would be very proud,” he added.

Situated on the northeast portion of the hospital’s campus, the pavilion will also include an easy-to-navigate lobby and a welcoming environment. Other amenities include an expanded café, courtyard garden, renovated gift store and an internal link to the Emergency Department. Vacated space from the existing building will allow the hospital to add more private rooms in the future.

“Today, we celebrate this milestone in Good Samaritan’s history,” the hospital’s president Ruth Hennessey said in a statement.

“Also, we recognize the employees who have made our hospital what it is today, the hub of Catholic Health in Suffolk County, a tertiary care facility with premier programs in cancer, cardiology, surgery, stroke and pediatrics and a pillar in the community on the south shore of Long Island,” she added.

Founded on May 18, 1959 by the Daughters of Wisdom, in 2021 Good Samaritan treated nearly 83,000 patients in its emergency department, 25,000 total admissions and performed 20,000 ambulatory surgeries. Services include the St. Francis Heart Center at Good Samaritan, the Catholic Health Cancer Institute, the Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Center of Long Island and the only Verified Level II Trauma Program for both adults and pediatrics on the south shore of Long Island.

Founded on May 18, 1959 by the Daughters of Wisdom, in 2021 Good Samaritan treated nearly 83,000 patients in its emergency department, 25,000 total admissions and performed 20,000 ambulatory surgeries. Services include the St. Francis Heart Center at Good Samaritan, the Catholic Health Cancer Institute, the Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Center of Long Island and the only Verified Level II Trauma Program for both adults and pediatrics on the south shore of Long Island.

 John Caravella Esq., is a construction attorney and formerly practicing project architect at The Law Office of John Caravella, P.C., representing architects, engineers, contractors, subcontractors, and owners in all phases of contract preparation, litigation, and arbitration across New York and Florida. He also serves as an arbitrator to the American Arbitration Association Construction Industry Panel. Mr. Caravella can be reached by email: John@LIConstructionLaw.com or (631) 608-1346.