Fort Worth, Texas – Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth has completed a 16-month emergency department expansion. The new department will receive its first patients Monday, August 28.
Completion of the 36,300-square-foot facility more than doubled the size of the hospital's existing emergency department and moved the emergency department to a new, more visible easily accessible location. Although not far from its previous location, the new emergency department sits directly on Mistletoe Boulevard, making ambulance, patient and family access easier and faster.
The new facility includes two trauma treatment rooms, 32 treatment rooms (4 rooms shelled in for future) and four triage rooms. A new imaging area inside the emergency department includes a 64-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner, X-ray room and ultrasound exam room.
The hospital officially broke ground on the renovation and expansion in April 2016.
Other changes include:
- Covered ambulance parking accommodating four ambulances
- Decontamination room
- Grieving room
- Three bariatric exam rooms
- Two negative pressure rooms
- Four clinical team stations
- Two point-of-care labs
- Covered drop-off point for walk-in patients
"Our brand new emergency department will give Tarrant County residents a superior patient experience and meet the emergent health needs of Tarrant County's growing population," said Michael Sanborn, president, Baylor Scott & White – Fort Worth. "The new department was designed to improve wait times and enhance the patient experience through on-site imaging, two trauma rooms, additional patient exam/treatment rooms, and an expanded triage area."
Baylor Scott & White – Fort Worth is designated an Advanced Level III Trauma Facility by the Texas Department of State Health Services, meaning emergency medicine physicians and nurses undergo trauma-specific continuing education and maintain specialized certification in trauma and resuscitation. Level III trauma centers have demonstrated the ability to provide prompt assessment, resuscitation, surgery, intensive care and stabilization of injured patients and emergency operations.
Baylor Scott & White – Fort Worth also holds Chest Pain Center v5 Accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers and Advanced Primary Stroke Designation from The Joint Commission, recognizing its quality care for heart attack and stroke patients.
Disclaimer: Physicians provide clinical services as members of the medical staff at one of Baylor Scott & White Health's subsidiary, community or affiliated medical centers and do not provide clinical services as employees or agents of those medical centers, Baylor Health Care System, Scott & White Healthcare or Baylor Scott & White Health.
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