Rock Drilling and Blasting to Begin Friday as Part of HealthAlliance Hospital Expansion and Enhancement Project

KINGSTON, N.Y. (June 11, 2020) – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is issuing courtesy announcements to surrounding businesses and neighborhoods that rock drilling and blasting necessary as part of the expansion and enhancement project for HealthAlliance Hospital on Mary's Avenue will begin Friday, June 12 and continue for approximately one month.

These activities are part of the project's site preparation process and are expected to occur from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The blasting will be contained to a small area and will not present any danger to those outside the immediate detonation area. As an alert to those in proximity, horns will sound five minutes prior to the activity and then two horns will sound one minute prior to the blast. Once the blasting activity is complete a single, long horn will sound, signifying the end of the activity. These activities are standard, site preparation procedures for a construction project of this kind. Blasting activity will occur exclusively below ground and will be controlled with the required safety measures.

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Last Fall, New York State Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul joined community influencers and hospital leadership as WMCHealth broke ground on a $92.9 million, 127,000-square-foot expansion and enhancement of this hospital campus on Mary's Avenue.

The expanded HealthAlliance Hospital will feature the addition of a new , two-story, 79,000-square-foot building adjoining the current facility, as well as a full renovation of 48,000 square feet of space within the existing hospital. Key components of the new 175-bed facility will include a newly constructed 25,000-square-foot emergency care center; a newly constructed 10-bed intensive care unit, a six-bed medical "stepdown" unit; a newly constructed birthing center; a new imaging department and fully remodeled centers for ambulatory surgery, infusion therapy and endoscopy. Nearly all of the patient rooms will be private. The site contractor for this project is Merritt Construction of Saugerties.

The blasting contactor is Alpha Drilling & Blasting of Queensbury. For answers to questions about the construction site, please contact Merritt Construction at 845.247.2877. If you have questions about the HealthAlliance Hospital expansion and enhancement project, please write to Build@HAHV.org.