A Tower to HEAL

Transforming Critical Care Health Services

Better Critical Care Throughout the Hudson Valley

As the Hudson Valley’s only Level 1 trauma center for children and adults, Westchester Medical Center and the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital are THE regional leaders in caring for the most complex illnesses – from life-threatening injuries to obscure diseases to life-saving transplants or highly complex births. Critical care is what we do and it’s who we are. WMCHealth has broken ground on a new five-story, 262,000-square-foot inpatient critical care tower that will bring the future of critical care medicine to the Hudson Valley.

Critical Care

About the Tower

What to Expect

Explore the Critical Care Tower

As regional healthcare leaders, we knew it was time to expand our critical care unit. Today, our average ICU occupancy rate is routinely at 90-95 percent compared to the NY State average of 75 percent. Help us reach our fundraising goals so we can provide better assistance patients with the following:

Life-Threatening Injuries

Head and spinal trauma, cardiac emergencies, abdominal trauma.

Life-Saving Transplants

Heart, liver, kidney, cornea, and bone marrow.

Complex Births

From premature babies to mothers needing special attention.

Obscure Diseases

Infectious diseases, cancer, and gastroenterological conditions.

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“Access to multidisciplinary teams of specialists, availability of leading-edge diagnostic and procedural technologies, and opportunities for research and collaboration enable us to provide the highest level of care for patients and attract the most highly skilled physicians.”
– Renee Garrick, MD, Chief Medical Officer

“The Neurosciences Unit and its associated Neuro Intensive Care Unit will provide advanced and critical care for patients facing life-threatening and life-altering illnesses and injuries to the brain, spine, nerves, and muscles. In addition, our Comprehensive Stroke Program, the only one in the region, provides care to those who suffer debilitating strokes.”
– Chirag Gandhi, MD, Director of Neurosurgery

“Hospitals, physicians, first responders and individuals rely heavily on Westchester Medical Center’s around-the-clock, specialty critical care services with annual transfers to the Medical Center from area hospitals reaching over 11,000 in 2022 – that’s more than one patient every hour, 365 days a year.”
– Kartik Prabhakaran, Chief, Trauma Surgery

“We have been pioneers in critical care – in fact, today we are already home to the greatest number of critical care beds in the Hudson Valley. Now, we need to do more. And we need your help.”
– David Asprinio, MD, Director, Orthopedics

“Each year, WMCHealth invests tens of millions of dollars to provide the finest facilities, technology, and clinical staff to deliver the highest quality services for the people in our community and beyond, when they need us most.”
– Zubeen Shroff, Chair, Board of Directors

“The collective gifts of our community will provide you, your family and patients of all ages access to the best advanced and critical care available, right here at home.”
– Navy Djonovic, Chair, Westchester Medical Center Foundation

Redefining the Future of Critical Care

As Hudson Valley’s only Level 1 trauma center for children and adults, it’s time we developed a facility suitable for our world-class healthcare providers. By building our new medical facility, we can provide exceptional healthcare services dedicated to more than their physical well-being. We also intend for our facility to be the training ground for newer generations of healthcare professionals by providing them with space and technology to further their knowledge.