State officials are considering spending hundreds of millions of dollars to construct a new hospital in Brooklyn that could replace the troubled Brookdale Hospital, according to an article on the Capital website.

A new hospital would make sense for Brooklyn, according to Stephen Berger, an investment banker who chaired the New York State Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century.

The commission predicted that some New York City hospitals would close in future years because of high overhead and infrastructure costs and changing national trends in healthcare delivery, the article said.

It can’t just be a 12-story building with lots of beds, Berger said in the article. It must be the center of a health network that provides for emergency and acute care while also embracing an ambulatory care model that focuses on managing population health and keeping people from having to use the acute care portion of the building.

Read the article.