Montefiore's new Bronx medical center emphasizes outpatient care

The newest medical complex in the Bronx offers valet parking, views of Long Island Sound, and operating rooms equipped with overhead lamps that do not throw shadows and nonporous, plastic-lined walls to reduce the spread of infection. But there is one amenity it does not have: overnight beds. Though it has the resources of a hospital, the $152 million complex operated by Montefiore Medical Center will send patients home the same day as part of the hospital system's shift toward outpatient operations. The complex, which will officially open on Monday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, will occupy a 12-story tower in the Hutchinson Metro Center, an office park in the Pelham Bay neighborhood.