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Simi Valley Hospital
THAKKAR FAMILY EMERGENCY PAVILION PREPARES TO
OFFER MORE SPACE IN A STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITY
SIMI VALLEY HOSPITAL
is home to the region’s newest Emergency
Department, following completion of phase 1 of the $41 million Emergency
Services and Hospital Expansion Project earlier this year.
The largest element of that project is the state-of-the-art Thakkar Family
Emergency Pavilion. The new structure adds 5,500 square feet to the existing
Emergency Department and increases the number of patient rooms from
10 to 22.
The expansion will create a better experience for patients, family members and
hospital physicians and staff. After more than 18 years in the current facility, the
hospital was experiencing growing pains.
“In 1996, we served approximately 19,000 patients in our Emergency
Department,” said the department’s medical director, Alfred Yu, MD. “We’re
now seeing about 30,000 patients a year. Until this new facility became
available, we were handling that significant increase in volume without an
increase in space. Thanks to the flexibility of our physicians and staff, we
made it work, but having this additional space will be much better for
everyone involved.”
Along with the new Emergency Department, the building is home to a spacious
new surgical suite, as well as expanded surgical services.
However, the completion of the new Emergency Pavilion is not the end of the
positive developments in emergency care at Simi Valley Hospital. During the next
phases of the project, the older section of the department will close for reno-
vations that will bring the same state-of-the-art equipment and modern décor
that is featured in the Thakkar Family Emergency Pavilion. The completion of the
entire project is slated for 2016.
[Note: At the time this article was written, the opening date for the Thakkar
Family Emergency Pavilion had not been determined. Visit the hospital’s
website,
SimiValleyHospital.com
, for the latest information.]
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