SURGICAL UNIT TO BE ADDED $938,000 TO BE SPENT ON HOSPITAL PROJECT.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - With the closures of three regional hospitals and a growing population demanding medical services, Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital will spend $938,000 toward converting a skilled nursing unit to a medical-surgical unit. Five Tower is currently licensed for 32 skilled nursing beds, but the hospital for about three years has been getting permission from the state on a daily basis to use them as medical-surgical beds. The state Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
``It's been a long time. It's been a goal of the hospital to do this,'' hospital spokesman Ed Callahan said. ``It will increase the number of medical-surgical beds that we desperately need in the hospital.'' The board approved the expenditure at its meeting last month. ``It's so that we can go ahead and be licensed properly with the Department of Health Services for how we are utilizing our beds,'' said Bonnie bon·ny also bon·nie adj. bon·ni·er, bon·ni·est Scots 1. Physically attractive or appealing; pretty. 2. Excellent. Daniel, vice president of nursing services. ``The need for the community is to have medical-surgical beds.'' The work will include adding bathrooms, showers and isolation rooms, Daniel said. ``It has different building code standards. We are having to change it to an acute-care unit,'' hospital director June Snow said. The work is expected to be completed by February. The extra beds are needed to alleviate overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. in the emergency room and long waits for hospital beds by patients admitted to the hospital. ``We don't have a lot of extra beds,'' Snow said. ``Because High Desert Hospital was closed, and hospitals at Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. and in Palmdale were closed, we've lost all of those beds, and more people are moving up here.'' The skilled nursing beds were moved to a 3-year-old facility built near the main hospital, but the hospital is planning to convert that building to a $15 million women's health Women's Health Definition Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. and obstetrics obstetrics (ŏbstĕ`trĭks), branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth (see birth), and the time after childbirth. center. The Women and Infants Center will net the hospital more than 50 additional beds when the work is done and women's services are moved from the hospital to the new center. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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