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The Review March 24, 2015
Welcome to our new department CGH is wrapping up a major expansion, and you’re invited to check it out BY JERMAINE PIGEE jpigee@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5525 @JPigee84
Shirley Wolford, emergency department director at CGH Medical Center in Sterling, offers an inside look at the expanded emergency department. “With the additional space, we will be able to provide more personalized, private care and comfort for our patients,� Wolford said. Submitted photo
To Attend The open house will take place from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at CGH Medical Center, 100 E. LeFevre. Community members will receive guided tours of the new department and refreshments will be served. Go to www.cghmc.com/ED or call 815-625-0400 for more information.
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STERLING – Officials at CGH Medical Center will show off their $8.6 million emergency department expansion Tuesday. The 22,500-square-foot department, not yet open to the public, has 25 private treatment rooms, two trauma rooms containing two additional beds, six patient easy care bays, three triage rooms, and a streamlined patient registration and triage process. The renovated addition took a little longer than 14 months to complete, and approval from the Illinois Department of Public Health is expected by early April.
Once that happens, CGH can begin treating patients there, spokeswoman Nicole Bollman said. “We’re very excited to have the new part of this project available to us in the near future,� said Shirley Wolford, director of the emergency department. “With the additional space, we will be able to provide more personalized, private care and comfort for our patients.� For security purposes, the new emergency department will have secured access. Patients’ visitors will be limited, and the double doors on LeFevre Road will be locked after 8 p.m. Visitors entering the emergency department entrance after that will be issued a
visitor’s badge. The expansion, which is being paid for by debt restructuring and the issuance of bonds, is much needed, hospital officials have said. The emergency department had 4,000 visits in 1971, between 14,000 and 17,000 in 1993 (when the current space opened), and nearly 30,000 visits in 2012. The expansion is designed with 40,000 visits a year in mind. “We are committed to meeting our expanding patient needs,� added Cindy Zander, CGH vice president and chief operating officer. “The newly designed emergency department will better serve our communities long into the future.�
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