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trauma care area and add a cardiac treatment area with appropriate monitors and other equipment necessary to care for serious heart ailments.
All Emergency Department traffic now enters the department through the same door and through the present waiting room, which is inadequate for the department’s approximately 18,000 v isits per year. Two entrances will be created: one for critically ill patients and those who must be transported by ambulance, and another for patients able to enter the department on their own. Additional space in the waiting area will enable family to wait comfortably and out of the flow' of patient traffic.
A new corridor will allow patients registering for other outpatients procedures after regular registration hours to get to the rest of the hospital without having to travel either through the Emergency Department treatment areas or outside the building.
,The fast-track program is being developed in response to a community health needs assessment survey conducted in the summer of 1994 by the Community Health Forum, a group of area health care, human service and community organizations and agencies, including Warren Memorial Hospital. The number-one concern among the health and human service providers responding to the survey was “cost-efficient after-hours health care.”
The average total “through-time” in the Emergency Department is two hours. Service improvement such as the fast-track program will held decrease waiting time as well as address the separation of critically ill and less seriously ill patient and patient privacy considerations.
The proposed location of the Women's Care Center requires relocation of the main entrance and registration area and will include expansion of the lobby and construction of a new gift shop.
“This project is an opportunity to incorporate the gift shop into the hospital’s ‘front door’ functions, a goal of ours for a number of years,” said Frances Johnson, President of the Warren Memorial Hospital Auxiliary . The Auxiliary operates the gift shop.
The hospital has applied to the Virginia Department of Health for a Certificate of Public Need (COPN) for the expansion project. The state health commissioner is expected to make a decision on the application by the end of the year. If approved, construction of the new and expanded facilities would be completed in the spring of 1997.
Warren Memorial also has filed a COPN application to use space on the third floor for sub-acute rehabilitation beds. A decision on the project is pending. If both projects are approved, the hospital will reduce its total number of licensed beds from 151 to 135; 76 acute-care, 40 nursing beds (Lynn Care Center), eight intensive care beds and 11 sub-acute beds.
Warren Memorial Hospital is one of four subsidiaries of Valley Health System, a non-profit parent corporation.
Other subsidiaries of Valley Health System are: Winchester Medical Center, a 408-bed, non-profit regional referral hospital offering a full range of diagnostic, medical and surgical services for 450,000 residents of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland; the Surgi-Center of Winchester, a same-day outpatient facility; and Valley Regional Enterprises, which includes Valley Home Care, a durable medical goods and equipment company. Valley Medical Transport and Valley Pharmacy.
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