CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Corpus Christi Medical Center celebrated a significant upgrade Monday as hospital leaders marked the expansion of the Bay Area emergency room with a ribbon-cutting and groundbreaking ceremony.
The project includes an expanded ER that will open Dec. 1 with 13 state-of-the-art beds. Hospital officials said the improvements are part of a broader effort to strengthen emergency care services across the Coastal Bend.
The expansion also introduces new biplane imaging technology, a system designed to help physicians diagnose and treat trauma, strokes and other life-threatening conditions more quickly and with greater precision…