Ascension Sacred Heart in Pensacola, Florida, plans to build a new emergency center for adults and children. Construction on the 14,700-square-foot facility is expected to begin this fall, and the facility’s opening is planned for late 2020.
The emergency center will include 13 treatment rooms and two trauma rooms staffed by emergency medicine physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists. The facility will also include a lab, pharmacy, CT scanner and X-ray imaging.
“Like all of our emergency rooms, we’ll be open all day, every day. We’ll also have separate areas to care for children and adults,” said Tom VanOsdol, Senior Vice President, Ascension, and Ministry Market Executive, Ascension Florida. “Across the Gulf Coast and North Florida, we want to continue to make it easier for patients to receive the care they need, when and where they need it.”
The new ER will be located within a mile of the new Ascension Sacred Heart Health Center at Milestone, an outpatient medical facility that opened in March. It will be supported by Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital Pensacola, which provides the region’s only trauma center to treat both adults and children.
