Ascension St. Vincent’s stand-alone emergency room treated its first patient April 28, just before its scheduled 9 a.m. ribbon-cutting. A parent and child used the new 24/7 facility.
The emergency room is at 12525 Beach Blvd. at northwest Kernan and Beach boulevards. It is affiliated with Ascension St. Vincent’s Southside Hospital at 4201 Belfort Road. If an ER patient needs a higher level of care, an ambulance can take the person from the ER to the hospital.
The emergency room is 10,000 square feet and provides triage, critical care, nine treatment spaces and on-site lab services, as well as CT and X-ray technology, according to Ascension St. Vincent’s. The facility has a staff of 40…