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Queens hospitals ask borough leaders for millions for imaging, infrastructure and behavioral‑health spaces
Summary
Several Queens hospitals urged the Queens Borough Board to support FY27 capital funding for imaging equipment, clinical spaces and critical infrastructure—including requests from Elmhurst for a PET/CT ($5M) and therapeutic terraces ($6.5M), and a roughly $19.6M package from NYC Health + Hospitals Queens.
Elmhurst Hospital, Queens Hospital and several community health sites used the Borough Board budget hearing to press for capital investments they say are necessary to maintain services and avoid transfers of care.
"Elmhurst Hospital is a vital part of the fabric of our beloved borough of Queens," Elena Moran, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals Elmhurst, told Borough President staff. She outlined four priority projects for FY27: acquisition of a PET/CT scanner ($5,000,000) to stop routine transfers for advanced imaging; construction of two outdoor therapeutic terraces for inpatient adult behavioral‑health patients ($6,500,000); completion of lobby and entrance renovations (hospital has secured $5.8M but requested an additional…
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