Mercy picks Sylvania Twp. for new emergency center
By Marlene Harris-Taylor, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio | |
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Hospital officials will announce plans today for a new 12-bed E.R. at the corner of
Mercy purchased the former Central Elementary School building at the intersection for
"We think this is going to be positive. It is at the crossroads of where a lot of activity is happening. We have physicians in this area but have not had a huge presence. We hope to have a lot of roots on the west side of town in
The total cost for the proposed 18,000-square-foot facility is
Crews are in the process of demolishing the former school building. The groundbreaking for the new facility is expected to occur this fall, and the new building could be up and running a year later, in the fall of 2015.
It will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, which distinguishes it from urgent-care facilities that often cannot treat patients with serious injuries and can have limited hours of operation, Dr. Andrabi said.
Mercy plans to add 30 to 40 jobs to staff the emergency room. Four doctors will be hired immediately and then will transition to the new facility after it opens next year, said Dr.
"The nurses will be added as we get closer to actual opening," Dr. Goliver said. The health system also plans to hire radiologists and laboratory technicians.
Dr. Andrabi said the location of the facility will help Mercy reach and treat patients from areas west of
This new hospital facility, however, will compete directly with Mercy's competitor,
"There is no doubt that Flower has an E.R., and it has served
"Payor mix was not a factor in our decision to build the new E.R. and diagnostic center. For Mercy, it is about our clear direction of changing the care model and how people access services where they live and work," Mercy officials said.
Mercy has been operating a standalone E.R. in
"We are seeing about 28 to 29 patients per day. It is doing better than expected given that we are new to the area. There is a bit of a learning curve for people getting to understand what the facility can offer," Dr. Goliver said. At the one-year mark, the hospital center expects to have seen about 11,000 patients.
When the Perrysburg E.R. opened, Mercy officials originally said it was expected to treat up to 20,000 patients a year, but those projections were "in context of our five-year projection for facility maturity," Dr. Goliver said.
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