Northwell Greenwich Village Hospital to open cath lab, inpatient unit; staff describe ED capacity and post‑Beth Israel impacts

Tracy Feiertag, vice president of Northwell Greenwich Village Hospital, told Manhattan Community Board 2 that the facility will add an inpatient unit and a cardiac catheterization (cath) lab and that those services are expected to open early this summer. Feiertag said the site was previously a freestanding emergency department and outpatient center operated under Lenox Hill Hospital’s Article 28 license; the added services and inpatient capability prompted the facility’s name change to Northwell Greenwich Village Hospital.

"We will be accepting heart attack patients and stroke patients as well," Feiertag said, describing the clinical scope once the new services are fully licensed and operational. She emphasized exclusions: the facility will remain on diversion for trauma and for critical behavioral‑health ambulance transports, meaning ambulances will generally not bring cases that require immediate trauma surgery or primary…