Inside the New ED
Any day.
Any time.
Every one
of us could need the help of the emergency medicine specialists at Glens Falls Hospital. But as anyone who has been there recently knows, the Hospital’s Emergency Department, last renovated nearly 30 years ago, is limited in its ability to provide patients and family members with the private, personalized, more comfortable care experience they want and deserve.
Welcome to a New Era in Emergency Care
With your help, we will build a new Sheridan Emergency Department that is better able to respond to every patient’s unique needs from the moment they arrive.
Modern Emergency Care for the Unique Needs of Every Patient
The new Emergency Department will be nearly 40% larger, with more than 7,000 square feet of new construction and major repurposing and renovation of existing space.
A covered portico and a larger, more comfortable public waiting area will welcome patients and visitors and provide an overall better care experience from the start.
After arriving in the public waiting area, patients who are not in immediate need of a bed will be given an initial evaluation and diagnostic testing and then proceed to a separate, more private waiting area to continue their care in a setting that is more sensitive to their needs. Here, as in other places in the Department, a “video wall” will bring the beauty of the Adirondacks inside.
For the first time, the Emergency Department will have its own, dedicated CT scanner, helping our providers diagnose and treat patients faster.
The number of rooms for the most seriously ill patients will nearly double, including five rooms that can be quickly converted to safely accommodate the need of behavioral health patients if the Hospital’s newly expanded Crisis Unit is at capacity.
A new treatment area for patients with relatively minor illnesses and injuries means they’ll no longer have to wait while more seriously ill patients are treated.
