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The second floor will feature 19,000 square feet of space for physician offices and the plan is for up to 10 doctors from the NCH physician team in cardiology, internal medicine and family medicine. The same goes for stroke patients being stabilized at the freestanding emergency department and transferred when inpatient care is needed.Ĭhildren also can be cared for in the new complex, she said. The second floor will be for physician offices, Thoman said.Īmbulances will transport patients to the new emergency room and, in the event a patient is having a heart attack, the patient can be stabilized there and transported to the downtown hospital when interventional care in the cardiac catheterization laboratory or open heart surgery is necessary, she said.
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The building’s ground floor will house the emergency room, a full suite of imaging and physical therapy. “We will be prepared to treat anything there.” “We will be able to treat patients as if they were coming to the hospital (emergency room),” Thoman said. In comparison, the emergency room at NCH North Naples hospital handles 55,000 visits a year, and the NCH Downtown Hospital handles 38,000 emergency room visits a year. The new freestanding emergency room will have 21 patient care areas, and the expectation is it will have 20,000 visits a year. “The North Naples (Hospital) emergency room is very busy and this will give us a lot more capacity,” Weiss said. The hospital system does not have to apply for a certificate-of-need approval from the state for licensing approval before it can start the project.Īt present, 16 hospitals in Florida have an off-site emergency room, according to state records. The new complex is targeted to open in November, and 75 new jobs will be created, said Michele Thoman, NCH’s chief nursing officer.įederal and state rules that all emergency rooms must accept any patient to treat and stabilize, regardless of ability to pay, also apply to freestanding emergency rooms, Thoman said. The state Legislature had a moratorium on freestanding emergency rooms that expired July 1, 2006. Freestanding emergency departments are increasing in popularity in suburbs and can help relieve overcrowding in hospital-based emergency rooms. The project will usher in Collier County’s first freestanding emergency room that will offer all the same services as emergency rooms attached to a hospital. That’s plenty to support a 24/7 emergency room. There are 11,500 new homes being built or on the drawing board in the area, he said. Allen Weiss, president and chief executive officer of NCH, said. Friday, with the public invited to show the fast-growing community nearby that health and help is around the corner, Dr. NCH Northeast will encompass a two-story building with 40,000 square feet of space behind a CVS pharmacy. The NCH Healthcare System is building a freestanding emergency room, diagnostics and physician offices in a new $24 million building project near the northeast intersection of Immokalee Road and Collier Boulevard in North Naples.