Good Samaritan Hospital is asking the NY State Department of Health for permission to build a new $2.8 million rapid admissions unit that it hopes will ease wait times in the emergency room.
The hospital hopes to build a 10-bed ward where emergency-room patients who need to be admitted to the hospital will be treated until a bed becomes available in other parts of the facility.
The proposed new ward would become part of a multimillion-dollar renovation of the emergency department.
Construction would start as soon as the state approves the plan. Hospital officials hope the new unit will be open by the end of the year.
The number of visits to the emergency room has increased dramatically in the past several years.
There were 32,370 visits to the emergency room in 2002, compared with 36,740 in 2007, according to the hospital.
(Source: LoHud.com)
WHERE IS THIS SMART HOSPITAL LOCATED?
Many more people have inadequate medical insurance.
more children,(both Jewish and non- Jewish )have been born
More older people are living longer and having more accidentds
More doctors are giving less care to their patients
Good Samaritan has laid off many nurses and doctors,but yet wants to expand its emergengy service
Near Monsey;Suffern (Suffering,NY)
very much needed!! emergency room wait times are way too long.
maybe now they’ll have enough manpower to handle half of the patients westchester med ctr is getting from across rockland & orange counties.