ADVISORY/Kaiser Permanente Opens State-of-the-Art Emergency Department; New Design Incorporates Lessons from 9/11 Disaster.News Editors/Assignment Desks/Health/Medical Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Nov. 11) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield.
WHAT: Media tours of new, high-tech emergency department --
largest in Contra Costa County; hub for
decontamination treatment.
WHEN: Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003
9:00 a.m. to noon
WHERE: Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center
1425 S. Main Street
Walnut Creek, Calif.
1st floor left of main hospital entrance
TOUR LEADERS: Dale Poppert, MD, emergency department physician
Kevin Langkiet, RN, service director for emergency
services
BACKGROUND: The new Emergency Department has 52 private treatment rooms with cardiac monitoring, a radiology suite with on-the-spot digital imaging, the largest decontamination decontamination /de·con·tam·i·na·tion/ (de?kon-tam-i-na´shun) the freeing of a person or object of some contaminating substance, e.g., war gas, radioactive material, etc. de·con·tam·i·na·tion n. structure in the area for handling victims of chemical spills, isolation rooms for patients with infectious diseases infectious diseases: see communicable diseases. , and advanced computer systems. It also provides a family-sensitive environment for the privacy and comfort of patients and their loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl . Kaiser Permanente's Walnut Creek Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. Medical Center is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The facility has 229 licensed beds and offers inpatient, outpatient, emergency, prevention and health education services. The medical center also has an oncology center and the largest Level III, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Noun 1. neonatal intensive care unit - an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn NICU ICU, intensive care unit - a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care in Contra Costa County. Nearly 300 physicians and 3,000 staff work at the medical center. http://www.kaiserpermanente.org |
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