Highlight: Emergency Department

Key features of the emergency department include:

• 15 treatment spaces
• 3 high acuity treatment spaces
• 4 clinical decision spaces
• 2 tandem trauma/resuscitation bays
• Significantly larger and more welcoming space
• Double in size from the current emergency department
• Designated entrance, waiting area, and registration area (separate from main entrance)
• Treatment spaces are separated by walls improving privacy and infection control
• Enclosed, heated double bay ambulance garage
• Staff workstations with clear sight lines to waiting areas and treatment spaces to enhance patient care and safety
• Security office for improved patient and staff safety
• Negative pressure treatment rooms for enhanced infection control
• Crisis interview room
• Quiet bereavement room

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Design is ongoing and subject to change. Renderings are simulated views that are approximate and illustrative.