State Decides To Keep Dobbs Ferry Hospital Open

DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. — Westchester County residents are celebrating the news that the Community Hospital of Dobbs Ferry will not be closed.

The state, which had threatened to close the facility, has instead granted $7 million to operate it as a "hybrid hospital," with an emergency room, 12 observation beds, two new operating rooms, and an expanded breast cancer center.

It will surrender its current license as a 50-bed hospital and merge with St. John's Riverside Hospital in Yonkers — calling itself The Dobbs Ferry Pavilion. Both hospitals are part of the Riverside Health Care System.

A state senator, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, part of a coalition to save the hospital, said losing it would have jeopardized services provided from Dobbs Ferry to southwest Yonkers.