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Rome Health receives $500,000 in ARPA funds from Oneida County for expansion project

Oneida County on Wednesday, Jan. 22 presented $500,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to Rome Health for the hospital’s project to build four new operating rooms and a new nine-bed intensive care unit. The funds will help transform one of the new operating rooms into a hybrid room capability of handling larger and more complex surgeries. (Photo credit: Oneida County)

ROME, N.Y. — Oneida County on Wednesday, Jan. 22 presented Rome Health with $500,000 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to build a hybrid operating room (OR) as part of its capital project to update and upgrade its aging operating rooms and intensive care unit, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced.

“Oneida County is committed to ensuring that ARPA funds are invested in projects that directly benefit our residents and enhance essential services like the $3 million that we provided to Rome Health for the women’s surgical suite in 2022,” Picente said in a news release. “The creation of a hybrid room at Rome Health will expand access to advanced surgical and interventional services for county residents and helps secure Rome Health’s future as a leader in accessible, innovative health care solutions.”

The Kaplan Center for Surgical Services and a new nine-bed ICU are currently under construction and expected to open later this spring.

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“The timing of this funding is crucial to the success of our ongoing expansion,” Rome Health President/CEO AnneMarie Czyz said. The funding will enable the hospital to modify one of the four new surgical suites currently under construction to create a hybrid operating room for more complex procedures. A hybrid OR accommodates more technology and larger teams of specialists to perform advanced interventional and surgical procedures.”

According to Czyz, members of the medical staff advocated for a hybrid room to bring more advanced procedures and specialists to Rome. “The county’s investment enables us to accelerate our plans and demonstrates to other potential funding sources that this project has broad community support,” she said.

Rome Health is constructing a 30,000-square-foot, three-floor addition to the north side of the hospital for the new surgical suites and ICU. It engaged its architect King + King Architects LLP and general contractor Hayner Hoyt to modify existing plans to accommodate the future needs of a hybrid room.

Other funding for the project includes a partnership of more than $29.5 million in public funding and $15.3 million in private philanthropy through the Rome Health Foundation.

Rome Health is a nonprofit health-care system that provides an array of services from primary to specialty care for all stages of life. It is an affiliate of St. Joseph’s Health and an affiliated clinical site of New York Medical College.

 

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