"LMH continues to demonstrate it is the hospital of choice for serving the region's health care needs."
AN EXPANSION TO BE PROUD OF
After more than three years of planning and 18 months of construction, the emergency physicians and staff were excited to show off the new Simons Center for Emergency Medicine before it officially opened in March. But since then, they can't stop beaming with pride that they now treat patients in a facility that is as state of the art as it comes.
The stats are impressive: 17,580 square feet, 23 private patient rooms, two resuscitation/trauma rooms, three psychiatric crisis stabilization rooms, three nursing stations, dedicated decontamination and isolation facilities, an enclosed garage that can accommodate two ambulances, and an enlarged waiting room with a child-friendly area.
Technology additions include dedicated cardiac monitors in 14 rooms, as well as mobile electrocardiogram and cardiac monitors, 12 ceiling-mounted suture lights, four moveable booms which accommodate medical gasses and equipment to meet critical patients' needs, enhanced security systems, wireless voice recognition devices to support hands-free communication for physicians and staff, and computers in every patient room for clinical documentation and ordering at the bedside. Is it any surprise ER physicians and staff are saying, “Take a look at us now!”