Crystal Run Healthcare Opens Monroe Office

MONROE – State Senator John J. Bonacic, State Senator William Larkin, and US Representative Sean Patrick Maloney joined members of the Crystal Run Healthcare executive team Tuesday morning to celebrate the grand opening of, and cut the ribbon at, Crystal Run Healthcare’s new facility in the Village of Monroe. The 70,000 sq. ft. facility was partially funded with $12.3 million in state funds, and houses access to more than 40 specialties, an endoscopy suite, an infusion center, Urgent Care facilities, as well as fully accredited diagnostic testing services.

Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus noted three years ago, Orange County government had more employees than Crystal Run. “Today I am proud to say that Crystal Run has surpassed us. We have gone down, and they’ve gone up through private investment. To me that is the tangible evidence that we need today,” he said. “That is what you want to see. The private sector out pacing the public sector.”

“This organization has one mission,” said State Senator Larkin, “the healthcare of our communities and nothing else is as important as the health of our communities.” Larkin asked those in attendance, “When you get to be my age, you start to look around and ask who’s going to be there to take care of me?” He also had the answer in Dr. Hal Teitelbaum and Crystal Run Healthcare.

State Senator Bonacic echoed the sentiments of Sen. Larkin in regards to Dr. Teitelbaum being a visionary, a man looking towards the future of healthcare and what it must look like. “This is another example of a public private partnership. What you see out here today is probably between a $35-$40 million investment in healthcare.” It is also an investment in the local community.

US Rep. Maloney stated that this project is an example of what can happen when people work together, and that includes politicians. “I want you all to know that this is not just, as the mayor said, a great project for Monroe, or as the county executive said, a great project for Orange County, though it is, and not that it’s an example of a public private partnership, it’s that. What they are doing here at Crystal Run is the answer to what has bedeviled us in healthcare in America. Believing that there is a path forward where we can have better health, better care and lower cost, that is the big gain. The answer to so much of what we need to do is going on right here.”