Orange Regional Medical Center ~ $24.6 Million Closer to Construction in Wallkill, NY

The State of New York has given Orange Regional Medical Center a $24.6 million matching grant to help pave the way toward Orange Regional's building of a new hospital campus in Wallkill, NY, the first new hospital of its kind to be built in the last 27 years.

Scheduled to open in 2011, the new 600,000 square foot hospital campus will replace Orange Regional's current area hospitals locates in Goshen and Middletown, NY. The new hospital will be located in the vicinity of I-84 and Route 17, on East Main Street, in Wallkill, NY.

At a projected cost of $350,000, Orange Regional's Wallkill campus will be constructed on 61 acres, stand seven stories tall, and provide 354 patient beds. This will make the new hospital the largest such medical center found between Albany and the Tappan Zee Bridge.

With the opening of the new hospital, patients will no longer need to travel outside the area in order to find state-of-the-art care. And in accordance with Orange Regional Medical Center's mission, the Wallkill facility will operate as a not-for-profit hospital, guaranteeing quality care to all.

Orange Regional will use the state grant to reduce its debt by half. Reduction of this debt is necessary before construction can commence. Orange Regional Medical Center needs to raise a matching amount to apply to its remaining debt.

For information visit: www.ormc.org