A Greeley hospital will add 6,000 square feet to its emergency department to improve efficiency and patient care.
Nine exam rooms, three intake rooms and additional space for patients, staff and supplies are being added to the emergency department at the UCHealth Greeley Hospital, 6767 W. 29th St.
“We have been busy since we opened,” hospital president Marilyn Schock said. “But as our patient volumes grow, as the community grows, it’s the need to grow with the community.”
With a projected cost between $13 million and $15 million,, and the project is slated to be finished next summer.
The new exam rooms will bring the hospital’s total to 27, allowing staff more space to treat patients who are already coming into the emergency room.
“We see everybody that walks through so we end up overflowing into nontraditional care spaces,” director of operations Emily Garner said. “So to have those nine exam rooms, that’s incredibly important.”
The intake, or triage, rooms will help emergency room staff assess patients as they come in, and allow them to decide the proper means of care. For the patients whose needs are less urgent, the internal lobby will give them a more comfortable place to wait on lab work or other results.
The emergency room waiting area at UCHealth Greeley Hospital, 6767 W. 29th St., with construction barriers outside. The emergency department is adding nine exam rooms, three intake rooms and additional space for patients, staff and supplies. (Courtesy/UCHealth Greeley)“The three triage rooms help to create space for some decision-making up front to set the path for your patients care,” Garner said. “And the internal lobby area will really help with those lower acuity patients that might just need a test or an X-ray or something non-life threatening.”
Though the hospital opened just over six years ago, the need for added space didn’t sneak up on anyone.
“We built with the intent that we would be growing,” Schock said. “We opened on July 3, 2019, and we’ve been busy since. We have gone from 51 beds to 88 beds in that amount of time.”
Though the hospital has been under construction nearly constantly — Schock half-joked that the hospital hasn’t gone three months without some sort of construction — this will be the first time the hospital will have to “move dirt,” as Schock put it.
Up until this year, all the additions to the hospital have come inside as additions to the already existing structure. The hospital has added a labor delivery room, an additional trauma resuscitation room, multiple operating rooms. The hospital even added three additional rooms to the intensive care unit during the COVID-19 pandemic, Shock said.
“The ICU was where so many of those patients ended up,” Shock said. “So we actually added those rooms in the middle of COVID so we could accommodate those extra patients.”
But this addition, as has been the case with all the other construction, is an “investment in the community by UCHealth,” Schock said, adding the health system works to stay ahead and meet the needs of its communities.
While completing the addition, the entrance to the emergency room has been moved to the main entrance farther east.
“We have additional folks available to help navigate and make sure that people can get where they need to get and they have their answers,” Schock said.
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