ER EXPANSION SET TO BEGIN IN '05 GROUND TO BE BROKEN IN JANUARY.Byline: Staff Writer VALENCIA Valencia, region, Spain Valencia (välān`thēä), autonomous region (1990 pop. 3,902,429) and former kingdom, E Spain, on the Mediterranean. It now comprises the provinces of Alicante, Castellón, and Valencia. - Hospital officials expect to hire a contractor next month and break ground in January on an expansion of Santa Clarita's only emergency room, built for about half the number of patients it now serves. Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital received four bids for the project, a more than $12 million expansion of the ER and the construction of a diagnostic laboratory for heart patients, Diana Vose, president of the hospital's Health Foundation, said Friday. The hospital has raised $8 million for the project, including two recent donations. The Weingardt Foundation contributed $750,000 and the Ahmanson Foundation has pledged $500,000. Since a fund-raising campaign Noun 1. fund-raising campaign - a campaign to raise money for some cause fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported began in April, local businesses, residents, hospital board members and physicians also have donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. money. The ER expansion will take up to two years and is complicated by the need to keep full emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' running during construction, Vose said. ``It has to be done in phases,'' she said. ``We can't just close down the emergency room. We need to be very careful about how the project is phased so patient care isn't affected. The ER was built to accommodate 18,000 cases a year, but handled 36,000 last year, Vose said. By the end of the decade, the patient load is projected to be 55,000 a year. The valley's population is an estimated 231,700 and is expected to hit 262,000 by 2009, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a study by Mark Schniepp, director of the California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Economic Forecast. ``The increasing population of the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. makes it essential that the valley's only hospital expand its services to meet the health care needs of area residents and businesses,'' Roger Seaver, the hospital's chief executive officer, said in a statement. ``Our demand for emergency services is increasing and we need a new emergency department with adequate, well-designed space and state- of-the-art equipment to treat an increasing number of trauma and critical care patients.'' Patricia Farrell Aidem, (661) 257-5251 pat.aidem(at)dailynews.com |
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