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Ceremonies will be held marking the completion of a four-year, three-hospital Emergency Department expansion program that has provided a major increase in patient capacity for area residents. The final phase of the project is the recent completion of the fully renovated 16,700-square-foot Moses Division Emergency Room. Other portions of the expansion project include construction of a new, 8,300-square-foot Emergency Department at Montefiore’s Weiler Division on Eastchester Road, and a new, 9,100-square-foot, stand-alone, Pediatric Emergency Room at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore on Bainbridge Avenue.
The new Weiler Division Emergency Department opened in 1999 with 33,700 patient visits and is projected to increase to 44, 800 visits by the end of this year. The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore’s Emergency Department opened in October 2001. In 1999, the old Pediatric Emergency facility had 33,400 patient visits. Projected for 2003 are 50,300 visits. The Moses Division accommodated 63,200 patients in 1999 and now has 81,700 visits anticipated for the year 2003.
WHEN:
Monday, February 10, 2003
11:00 AM
WHO:
Spencer Foreman, MD, president, Montefiore Medical Center
John Gallagher, MD, university chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
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