The opening of a new hospital in Prairie du Chien will be one of the major health care developments in the Coulee Region this year. <\/p>\n
The 25-bed, 137,000-square foot Crossing Rivers Health Center being built across from the municipal airport is targeted to open in June, CEO Bill Sexton said. <\/p>\n
When the current facility was built in the mid-50s, the standard was for bedside care, Sexton said. Today, its more for people who come in for treatment and are sent home. <\/p>\n
Those who do need inpatient care will be in private rooms, he said, adding, Back in the day, rooms were semi-private. Weve learned over the years that outcomes are better with private care. <\/p>\n
The rooms will have three zones one for the caregiver, one for the patient and another for the patients family, including a pull-out couch where relatives can watch TV and stay overnight, Sexton said. <\/p>\n
The $37 million building, which is part of a $50 million project including land, amenities and equipment, is rising on Hwy. 18 across from the municipal airport. <\/p>\n
It replaces a landlocked facility in town that has been renovated 11 times since it was built on grounds so cramped that emergency helicopters are forced to land on a church parking lot across the street. <\/p>\n
The new hospital includes not only a much larger emergency department but also a helipad, the CEO said. Ambulances at the current building park outside and staffers brave the elements to bring patients in, but the new hospital will include a two-bay ambulance garage with closing doors, he said. <\/p>\n
We have a good surgery department now, but we will have two operating rooms and a procedure room and can expand (operating rooms) to three, Sexton said. <\/p>\n
Among the more than 60 services available at the hospital are general, orthopedic, ophthalmologic and podiatric surgery; obstetrics; rehabilitation, and other specialty offerings that will be expanded, he said. <\/p>\n
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