Baylor Grapevine to Double ER Square Footage
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine, Texas, announced it will start building a $9.2 million expansion to its emergency department. The Grapevine site handled about 36,000 ER visits last year, or 30+ percent more than six years ago. The expansion will take the emergency area to 23,300 square feet from 11,300 square feet and increase the number of patient rooms to 29 from 22. Diagnostic imaging will be made possible with the addition of a computerized tomography scanner. A more direct route for ambulance access from State Highway 114 and State Highway 26 will also be built. The Dallas Business Journal reports.
Baylor Health Care System is a not-for-profit, faith-based network of hospitals and other care facilities, which, as of 2003, handled 93,324 admissions and 245,558 emergency department visits with 15,000 employees and 3,300 physicians (as reported by the institution on its web site).
March 14, 2006 Related topics: Emergency