Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Update on Construction Activity for New Emergency Center – Northeast.

For those of you who read the Tallahassee Democrat, one of the more entertaining columns is Zing, which can be found on the Tallahassee Democrat editorial page. Anonymous readers can send in posts that are sometimes humorous and sometimes cynical, but always give a window to what our community is thinking.

Today in Zing, a reader posted the following comment: “If it takes TMH as long to build the proposed emergency center as it does for a patient to be served in the current one, most of us will never live to see it completed.”

Monday, July 11, 2011

A Message From Mark O'Bryant

Mark O'Bryant
President & CEO
I am pleased to tell you about an exciting new project that will make TMH’s emergency care faster and more convenient than ever before while maintaining the same high level of clinical quality you have come to expect. The project is a new, freestanding Emergency Center specifically designed to meet the increasing demands of our growing Big Bend region. The new Emergency Center will be located at the Thomasville Road and I-10 interchange. It will be staffed by our outstanding TMH Emergency physicians, able to respond to emergency situations involving stroke, heart attack and other life threatening illnesses. A freestanding Emergency Center is not a new concept. Innovative health care systems around the country have developed similar centers to improve access and drive down wait times for those in critical need of emergency treatment.

With this new Emergency Center we will also be able to add new features that extend the specialized care of our pediatric intensive care and geriatric services. In fact, special emphasis will be placed upon the specific needs of pediatric and geriatric patients to increase their comfort and lessen their anxiety during treatment.