patient overspill

Ever since the closing of St. Vincent’s Midtown hospital, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center has been feeling the crunch associated with more patients. The volume of traffic at St. Luke’s emergency room has increased almost twofold, according to Dr. Dan Weiner, chairman of Emergency Medicine at the hospital. Because of this influx, a recent $15 million allocation devoted to the expansion of the hospital emergency room at the Roosevelt campus was, according to Weiner, both necessary and inevitable.