Florida Hospital Set to Open ER and ICU
TAMPA, Fla. — Florida Hospital Tampa is opening a new emergency room and intensive care unit with a new model of emergency care for patients and families.
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Patient Anxiety Causes Returns to ER
WASHINGTON — If a patient returns to the emergency room only a few days after their initial visit, it’s generally due to a lack of trust in other parts of the health care system and because he or she is anxious about their symptoms.
Read moreFlorida Hospital Breaks Ground on Patient Tower
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — To meet the increasing health care demands of the growing community, Florida Hospital Kissimmee (FHK) recently broke ground on a three-story patient tower. The 80-bed, 94,000-square-foot patient tower will double the size of the current hospital.
Read moreViolence Against Healthcare Workers Increases
Violence against emergency room nurses and other medical professionals appears to be increasing as the number of drug addicts, alcoholics and psychiatric patients show up regularly in emergency rooms across the country, according to a recent survey of industry professionals.
The survey, produced this year by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, illustrates that visits to ER’s for drug and alcohol-related incidents rose significantly from 1.6 million in 2005 to nearly 2 million in 2008.
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MountainStar Healthcare Opens Utah ER
DRAPER, Utah — Utah’s only standalone emergency department, the Lone Peak Emergency Center, is now open. The Level III trauma center represents the beginnings of MountainStar Healthcare’s first medical campus to service Draper’s approximately 45,000 residents.
MountainStar Healthcare plans to build an 85-bed inpatient hospital on the site in the future.
The emergency center is located on the first floor of the recently built Lone Peak Medical Office Building, a three-story, 52,500-square-foot facili
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