Garnet Health Medical Center and its affiliate Garnet Health Doctors reached new milestones recently on their respective expansion programs.
On May 10, Garnet Health Doctors, formerly Orange Regional Medical Group and Catskill Regional Medical Group, is expected to open its newest facility in Goshen. This new practice at the redeveloped Goshen Plaza will be Garnet Health Doctors’ ninth location in Orange and Sullivan counties.
Construction work is continuing on the $55-million redevelopment of Goshen Plaza being undertaken by Fareri Associates, LP of Greenwich, CT.
The new Garnet Health Doctors facility, totaling more than 16,000 square feet, is located at 102 Clowes Ave. right off exit 124 from Route 17. The newly constructed, state-of-the-art facility will offer Primary Care, Urgent Care, Endocrinology and Rheumatology care, as well as laboratory and X-ray services.
“With the opening of our new Goshen practice, Garnet Health Doctors is proud to offer additional access to quality medical care close to home,” said Dr. Gerard Galarneau, Garnet Health Doctors President.
A number of Garnet Health physicians will be providing services at the new Goshen location, including Primary Care Physicians, Dr. Joseph Chavez Carey, who was previously located in Monroe, and will now be seeing patients full time in Goshen, and Dr. Alicia Olowu, who will rotate her service between the Goshen and Middletown offices. Dr. Mohamed Ali will offer Endocrinology care and Rheumatology care will be provided by Dr. Jenny Cabas Vargas and Dr. Bella Fradlis. These physicians were previously seeing patients in Garnet Health Doctors’ Middletown office, and will now see patients full time at the Goshen location.
The new facility will offer plenty of space to ensure social distancing as a continued precaution against COVID-19. As Garnet Health does at all its locations, hospital officials state that it will aggressively clean, disinfect and sanitize, and employ other safeguards to keep patients and staff safe. Curb-side check in for Urgent Care is available as is COVID-19 testing.
The Goshen practice will be open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for doctor’s appointments. Urgent Care is available every day of the week from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Last month, Garnet Health Medical Center, formerly Orange Regional Medical Center, held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new parking garage. The 600+ space employee parking garage is being constructed adjacent to the Emergency Department and is expected to be complete in 2022.
The socially-distanced event on April 7 commemorated a key phase of construction on the Emergency Department Expansion project. Already complete is the relocation and installation of a new helipad at the hospital campus. Once the entire expansion project is finished, the ED, which currently has 51 treatment bays, will double in size. Construction is expected to be complete in 2024.
“This employee parking garage is an important endeavor as it supports the expansion of services we provide to our community,” said Garnet Health Board of Directors Chair Don Beeler. “By creating new parking spaces for our employees, we will free up parking for our patients and visitors who come to Garnet Health Medical Center and Garnet Health Doctors.”
The event also marked the opening of the $7-million Every Minute Counts Capital Campaign to the public sector. The campaign, which has already raised $3 million, will benefit the expansion project and emergency care at Garnet Health Medical Center.
