The 15-year-old Long Island Jewish Hospital in Queens will become the Long Island Jewish Medical Center and will undertake a campaign to raise $25 million to effect the expansion, it was announced today. The announcement was made by Gustave M. Berne, president of the hospital, at a dinner honoring past president Jack S. Liebowitz. Mr. Berne said the hospital was expanding in order to better serve the rapidly growing communities of Queens and Nassau County. He said that as a medical center it would “provide new concepts of highly sophisticated facilities and services for patient care, teaching, research and community health.” Plans call for a separate unit for overnight facilities for patients undergoing diagnostic tests and a complete “walk-in” diagnostic clinic for ambulatory patients, a coronary care pavilion, a kidney dialysis center and a pediatric intensive care unit.
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