Buffalo, N.Y.-based Catholic Health will restructure care at its Mount St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston, N.Y. over the next few weeks by transitioning some services to different hospitals and opening a new one hospital, according to a June 12 news release.
The move is intended to reduce the hospital's current inpatient bed load. Mount St. Mary’s will also transition surgeries, maternity, dialysis and GI care to other Catholic Health hospitals. Though along with inpatient care, Mount St. Mary's will still operate its wound care center, substance use treatment center and network of community-based health centers.
The system said that it plans to also discontinue imaging services entirely at its Porter Road location.
In an effort to transform the hospital into what the health system says is a "neighborhood hospital" model, it will also add services for residents in the eastern part of Niagara County with the opening of a new hospital center coming in September.
The new Lockport Memorial Hospital will include ambulatory surgery, emergency care, imaging and laboratory services, and primary and specialty care, according to the release.
"While this reconfiguration is necessary to continue our mission, our commitment to the people of Niagara County will never change," Mark Sullivan, president and CEO of Catholic Health said in a statement. "Much discernment and planning has gone into this process to ensure patients will have needed medical and emergency services in their own community with improved access to higher levels of quality care at Centers of Excellence throughout Catholic Health."
Staff affected by the changes will be offered new positions throughout the Catholic Health system or at the Lockport Memorial Hospital after it opens this fall, the release states.