The newly renovated Jennie Stuart Health’s Emergency Department is open and seeing patients as of March 14.
According to a news release, the new Jennie Stuart Health Emergency Department moves from having a single triage bay to now four areas to triage patients. In addition to adding capacity with additional rooms, the Emergency Department’s room size has increased by at least 30 percent in individual rooms. With the improvements to facilities also comes the latest technologies in the performance of life-saving measures. That includes equipment such as End-Tidal CO2, the transduction of Invasive lines to monitor pressures, the use of the Hamilton T-1 transport ventilator, and the added capability of being able to perform mechanical chest compressions.
There are now additional parking spaces and visible signs of construction outside of the hospital will come to a close. However, the expansion project will continue inside.
Jennie Stuart Health soon will welcome ER patients to a new waiting room. Renovation will continue in the former ER for additional ER capacity with anticipation of the full expansion opening in summer 2024.
Emergency Department Director Rahkeem Francis says, “Our expansion will mean better care for emergency patients, which is our ultimate goal. The Emergency Department is continuously striving for improvement for our patients whether it be by improvement of process, which we’ll see in this new facility, or by continuous learning.”