Industry Pulse: Hurricane Sandy Opens Door To Outpatient Plan

Some local residents object to plans to transform the hurricane-damaged Long Beach (N.Y.) Medical Center into an outpatient facility. Photo courtesy of Beach to Bay Central Council

Some local residents object to plans to transform the hurricane-damaged Long Beach (N.Y.) Medical Center into an outpatient facility.
Photo courtesy of Beach to Bay Central Council

Apparently not even a hurricane can stem the tide toward an outpatient delivery model.

Three years after Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of the East Coast, the owner of a shuttered hospital just outside of New York City has announced that the facility could eventually be reconstructed, but not as an inpatient facility.

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